Plant Dreaming

Yan Wang Preston

Plant Dreaming

Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition

Abstract

Featuring large-scale textiles, as well as ceramics, drawings, photography, and film, Plant Dreaming encourages us to think about different types of plant knowledge, and how they relate to ecopolitics and the self. Yan Wang Preston's lightboxes series, Winter - Seed Capsules, focuses on the plant Rhododendron Ponticum, considered as a non-native invasive species in the UK. Through the violent act of burning the seed capsules collected from a ponticum bush, she invites viewers to contemplate our violence and injustice to some natural species under the influence of colonialism and nationalism.

Original language	English
Media of output	Installation
Size	11 Light boxes - 11 metres wall length
Publication status	Published - 14 Nov 2025
Event	Plant Dreaming - Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom Duration: 14 Nov 2025 → 19 Apr 2026 https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/plant-dreaming-mspx

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Plant Dreaming

Abstract

UN SDGs

Other files and links

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With Love. From an Invader: Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me

Winter-Seed Capsules. A series of 11 lightboxes.

'Field Studies---Land, Body, Botany' - An art exhibition by Monty Adkins and Yan Wang Preston

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Plant Dreaming

Abstract

UN SDGs

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Research output

With Love. From an Invader: Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me

Winter-Seed Capsules. A series of 11 lightboxes.

Projects

'Field Studies---Land, Body, Botany' - An art exhibition by Monty Adkins and Yan Wang Preston

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