Glen Perotte: Mount Kenya's Rooted Resilience

In this new series of photographs Perotte explores the flora of Mount Kenya, Africa’s second highest mountain after Kilimanjaro and a uniquely special place. Mount Kenya is god’s mountain, a locus for the spiritual life of many of the ethnic tribes in the area who believe god came down from the sky to live on its peak amongst the clouds. The focus for Perotte is the astonishing plant life that manages to take root in this volcanic and harsh landscape of thin air and rocky terrain, sometimes by banding together and at other times finding a small niche to settle in alone. Strange, yet wonderfully captivating, these botanical wonders exhibit adaptations honed over millennia to survive the harsh mountain environment.

Glen Perotte is an international photographer who has worked in New York and London and is now based in Jersey. Over his 25-year career, Perotte has exhibited at institutions such as the Barbican Centre London, the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol and The Tampa Museum of Art in Florida.

In 2020 at CCA Galleries International, he exhibited his project called 2020: A Year in Vision – a series of portraits of the people of Jersey reflecting on their experience of the year 2020. The book which was part of the project went on to win Gold at Paris Photo Week the following year.

 

His subsequent exhibition here in 2021 title Remnants of Life, a collection of large still-life photographs of colourful plants shot in unique and inventive studio set-ups. This marked the beginning of his interest in botany and the three years since have seen a focus in Glen’s artistic practice which he shows to us now with his exhibition Mount Kenya’s Rooted Resilience.

 

Glen returns to CCA Galleries International for his third solo exhibition at the gallery with this exciting body of new work.

 

 

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