To see the Forest for the Pines ~ Thursday, June 26 from 12:00 till 14:00 ~ COOP SUMMIT 2025

To See the Forest for the Pines invites the audience into an immersive experience where forest becomes a witness within geopolitical shifts. Imperial infrastructures echo in the sound of a lucid dream leaking through the walls. Once a warehouse, SPEL turns again into a site for trade and exchange: histories that haunt the present resurface.

While pine trees are planted, olive trees get uprooted. Monocultures replace rich vegetation and bring ecosystems out of balance, causing forest fires and human-made catastrophes. From Lithuania over Cyprus to Palestine: The transformation of landscape is a colonial tool to control and eradicate indigenous life.

Forest Inscriptions has studied visible and invisible modes of extractivism, and the role of science in the production and destruction of knowledge. In the warm evening in Nicosia, the group brings their study into metabolic relations and leaking imaginations. Collaborative and site-specific research supports a collective storytelling that asks: What does the forest hide?

Join COOP study group FOREST INSCRIPTIONS at State Gallery of Contemporary Art - SPEL in Nicosia on the island of Cyprus for

To see the Forest for the Pines

Student participants: Dimitris Chimonas, Erik Peters, Foad Alijani, Ilja Schamle, Magdalena Beliavska, Nanna Stigsdatter Mathiassen, Sanna Hirvonen, Sophie Dandanell Refsgaard, Stellar Meris. 

Tutor participants: Egija Inzule, Jonas Žukauskas, Jurga Daubaraitė.

To see the Forest for the Pines is realized through the ongoing Friendship, conversation and collaboration between the Dutch Art Institute and:

Neringa Forest Architecture

evolving into an offering on

Thursday, June 26  from 12:00  till 14:00

as part of COOP SUMMIT 2025. 

Read more about the trajectory of COOP study group FOREST INSCRIPTIONS