Power of Polinators (And Other Living Things), 2024

Archival digital print

44 x 126 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $16,000

Starting Bid: $11,200

Buy It Now: $24,000

DAVID ALLEN BURNS and AUSTIN YOUNG / FALLEN FRUIT is an art project that began in Los Angeles in 2004 by creating maps of public fruit: the fruit trees growing on or over public property. The work of Fallen Fruit includes photographic portraits, experimental documentary videos, and site-specific installation artworks. Using fruit (and public spaces and public archives) as a material for interrogating the familiar, Fallen Fruit investigates interstitial urban spaces, bodies of knowledge, and new forms of citizenship. From protests to proposals for utopian shared spaces, Fallen Fruit's work aims to reconfigure the relationship of sharing and explore understandings of what is considered both-public and private. From their work, the artists have learned that "fruit" is symbolic and that it can be many things; it's a subject and an object at the same time it is aesthetic. Much of the work they create is linked to ideas of place and generational knowledge, and it echoes a sense of connectedness with something very primal-our capacity to share the world with others.

Fallen Fruit was originally conceived by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Since 2013, Burns and Young have continued the collaborative work.

Fallen Fruit has been recently featured in 15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch, ARTnews (cover); Artforum (Critic's Pick), The New York Times ("Tasty and Subversive Too" and "Food Matters"), Conde Nast Traveler ("18 Best Shows in London"), Los Angeles Confidential (cover and feature, "How Fallen Fruit is Changing the Art World & Life in LA"). Their work has been featured in The Idea of the West by Doug Aitken and numerous other publications, including The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design by Francesco Spampinato (Princeton Architectural Press), as well as numerous broadcast radio, TV, video, and blog venues.