Flowers To The People responds to a central contradiction of contemporary life: unprecedented digital connectivity alongside deepening disconnection—from nature, from one another and from ourselves.
While digital technologies promise access, efficiency and infinite possibility, they increasingly mediate and diminish lived experience. Nature is flattened into content, identity into data and human presence into metrics optimised for extraction. At the centre of this shift lies the hegemony of Big Tech billionaires, whose platforms enclose the digital commons and convert attention, creativity and even intimacy into commodities. This project emerges as a direct challenge to that condition. At its core are photographic portraits digitally reimagined as flora and fauna. These hybrid figures dissolve the false boundary between the human and the ecological. Nature is not presented as an external landscape to be consumed, but as embodied, intimate and inseparable.
Artist Bio: I’m Catastro/FILLE (Suke) — a genre-fluid, mixed-media artist and musician working across graphic design, photography, film, music, performance and installation. My practice is rooted in community and collective expression, celebrating the spaces I move through, the communities I belong to and the people I encounter - instinctively and playfully. I’m inspired by the body, movement, sensuality and our symbiotic relationship with the natural world. My background in community arts, heritage, journalism and social housing grounds the ethics and aesthetics of my work. I currently work p/t as a Creative Digital Tutor for an addiction recovery charity in Shoreditch.
Contact: If you have any questions regarding this exhibition, please email programming@stmargaretshouse.org.uk
Venue: The Chapel at St Margaret’s House, 21 Old Ford Road — E2 9PL
Access: We are working to make our Grade II listed building more accessible, but it will take some time. Please note that entry to the Chapel is not step-free. If you require access support (including our portable ramps) and/or access to an accessible toilet, please contact us on 020 8980 2092 or email emily@stmargaretshouse.org.uk so we can arrange this for you.
Opening Event: Friday 27th March, 6.30-8.30pm
Exhibition: Saturday 28th - Sunday 29th March, 10am-5pm
Tickets for the Opening Event are free, but registration is essential