Caput Folium Exhibition: Timo Menke
Caput Folium:
The leaf faces or Green Men are drawings and depictions of people composed of plant leaves. You find them in literature, architecture and folklore.
Photo: Svante Larsson
The exhibition Caput folium examines the medical, art and idea-historical flows that meet in the leaf face as a figure: the plant as the reversed human; the tree as an allegory for knowledge of the world and material for book production; the forest as our common ecological past.
After a long search, Timo Menke has found traces, images, fantasies and ideas about the plant-man and created an artistic habitat at the Hagströmer Library for new types of readers of plant-men and leaf faces.
The exhibition ran from 5 October 2023 to January 2024.