The Green Machine : Taipei / Urban Research – Mixed Media – Taipei Treasure Hill AIR – 2025
The Green Machine is an ongoing project started several years ago and carried out in Paris, Seoul, or Berlin, which explores the use of trees in urban environments. In our contemporary era, trees and their images are often at the heart of greenwashing strategies, disrespected as living entities or placed in funny, pathetic or drastic situations.
In the exhibition, more than a hundred photographs and video works serve as critical documentation of urban research conducted in Taipei and New Taipei City. Images of trees beheaded, turned into furniture or arranged into decorative bouquets reveal the ways in which urban nature is continuously objectified, manipulated, and subordinated to human use. Through this research, The Green Machine : Taipei (2025) interrogates the violence embedded in everyday urban design and invites a deeper reflection on the relationship between humans and the natural world.
An edition of 10 stickers of the most emblematic trees from this research are given to visitors. These stickers, generally depicting pop stars or animated characters, are used here ironically to represent these despised trees.
Re-tracing Buro 