Roots en Route

Roots En Route is a multisensory installation by four artists that offers an opportunity for calm pause amid art and plants. The works in the installation consider rootedness, rootlessness, and migration and detachment from one's own place. What grows there, where it has been planted? And what survives the journey? The African plants in the greenhouses of the Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden carry their own stories of movement, transition and adaptation. Camille Norment has created, in collaboration with Sofia Jernberg, a soundscape that draws on the insects and birds of the plants' home regions. Toubab Holmes's scent installation traces the journeys of plants in the perfume industry. Charmaine Watkiss explores, through the Plant Warriors drawings, the botanical traditions and healing practices connected to her Caribbean background. Together, the works interpret the botanic garden as an archive of movement and its plants as objects that have been carried, exported and forced to travel. Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden 18.10.2026-10.1.2027 Opening 17.10. at 18:30 (registration required) Greenhouse opening hours and further information: luomus.fi