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Olu Ogunnaike’s Radical Revival of London Plane Trees A new commission at Cell Project Space confronts questions about our complicity in the gentrification of our cities For London Plain (all works 2020) – a site-specific installation that reclaims Cell Project Space from its temporary, pandemic-induced programming hiatus – Olu Ogunnaike has covered the gallery’s original floor with a herringbone parquet. The artist sourced the lumber from London plane trees, which, due to their capacity to absorb pollution, were planted in abundance along roadsides in the capital during the industrial revolution and have more recently been seen as expendable when making way for municipal enterprises. Walking across the wobbling boards heightens our awareness of the transience of the work, which Ogunnaike compels us to pry up using a crowbar bearing traces of fingerprints and a mallet ( ....