Tree Time imagines a relationship between nature and technology unmediated by human presence. The video was shot in the Amazon rainforest with a drone enacting a disembodied point of view that floats through the densely compressed forest canopy, taking off, hovering above the ground, and occasionally returning to it.

 
The work’s title is informed by a series of interviews with a dendrochronologist who studies methods of tracking climate change by ‘reading’ the annual tree rings in the Amazon rainforest –ecological recordings reveal a hidden dimension of narrative time within nature itself.

Alexandra “Sasha” Lerman is a Russian born New York-based artist whose work interrogates systems governing the post-industrial landscape of immaterial labor through photography, sculpture, video, and performance. Lerman’s work has been shown at the SculptureCenter, Tina Kim Gallery, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Anthology Film Archives, Artists Space, Whitney Museum, New Museum in New York, Signal Center, Malmö in Sweden, MUSAC in Spain, the Museum of Hygiene in Saint Petersburg and Ground Solyanka in Moscow, Russia among others. Alexandra took part in the LMCC Workspace Program, Open Sessions Residency at the Drawing Center, LabVERDE residency in Manaus, Brazil, and Banff’s A Position of DOCUMENTA (13), Alberta, Canada. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art.