Valerie Geissbühler Pacheco

b. 1999 Switzerland-Peru
Based in Zürich (Switzerland)

‘At its core, rooting for you is an act of reconnection. Raised in urban environments, I was disconnected from the agricultural and herbal knowledge of my ancestors. Working with organic materials is a way of bridging that gap, of remembering through making. 

By tending to living materials, I revisit those histories through touch, patience and collaboration. The resulting installation is not a static archive but an evolving ecology of images, time and organic matter, an exploration of what it means to create with nature rather than about it.’ 

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Images: 

1-Valerie Geissbühler Pacheco, Untitled, 2021, from the series Rooting for You © Valerie Geissbühler Pacheco 

2-Valerie Geissbühler Pacheco, Untitled, 2022, from the series Rooting for You © Valerie Geissbühler Pacheco 

3-Valerie Geissbühler Pacheco, Untitled, 2022, from the series Rooting for You © Valerie Geissbühler Pacheco 

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