For Art Düsseldorf 2026, Dürst Britt & Mayhew is proud to present
Puck Verkade’s video project
Uprooted, which proposes an ecological worldview beyond human dominance, centred on coexistence with plants and animals, shared intelligence, and deep interdependency.
Uprooted unfolds within a vibrant, sculptural, site-specific installation (for Art Düsseldorf an inflatable rabbit) that brings together performance, hand-drawn animation, lyrical narration, and musical composition (in collaboration with Thomas van Linge). The film follows a protagonist who descends into a rabbit hole–like, transformative space, where she becomes entangled in the generative processes of a speculative world. The project emerged from Verkade’s post-partum experience, which felt as a profound, almost psychedelic shift in perception. Since its first commission for the 8th Yokohama Triennale in Japan, the project has expanded through a series of “growths”, including sculptures, an inflatable cinema, drawings, and animations; and exhibited at C5CNM in Beijing and De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam.
Verkade’s practice is known for blending personal narratives with broader socio-political and ecological questions, combining digital techniques with handmade craftsmanship to explore complex issues across emotional landscapes. With
Uprooted, she extends this approach by engaging with the uncertainties of raising a child in a time of ecological and social crisis. Rather than resorting to moralising, the work advances a more-than-human perspective grounded in interdependency, proposing a reconfiguration of interspecies relations. In doing so, it invites a reconsideration of how we relate to the more-than-human world and the forms of care such entanglements demand.
EssayClick here to read a specially commissioned essay by Nadeche Remst Private viewing link
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