"POLIMORFIUM" - IN SITU INSTALLATION
Jokingly speaking, the installation is a strange feeder that must have escaped from some story by Stanisław Lem (polish science-fiction writer). It is set on an old, withered tree covered with ivy that is located at Polish Sculpture Center Park in Orońsko.
The biomorphic form gains an interesting ontology through the introduction of biological life. Seeds planted on it have grown into the installation. When they sprouted, they formed a strong roots network merged with the fabric and gnawed through the clay. Materials interact with the natural cycles of the park. We cannot determine what belongs to nature and what to culture without a scalpel.
The rusty tails of squirrels amusingly scurry around with green nuts in their mouths. Autumn is coming and it’s dry. A large sack of wheat – for the nearby non-human Others – it’s an opportunity to stock up for winter. Decay and decomposition will feed microorganisms, fungi, insects, birds, small mammals, lizards, and snakes.
Biochemical reactions occur between substances in the installation. Iron-rich clay, formed in geological eons covers cotton fibers. The fabric soaks up the clay covering the rusting wires. Rust dyes the cotton which becomes the substrate for the wheat’s root network. The plants life enters into a relationship with the eons stored in the clay.
The in-situ installation opens a field of observation and inquiry.
PROCES
The relationship between substances and organisms creates a hybrid semi-organism. I wanted to include both appropriation and care in the installation, positioning the tendrils of action towards non-humans in such a way that the anthropocentric need to create on a dry tree is fused with an equally strong gesture of support for nature.
Plants, strongly present in our culture participated long ago in the development of civilization. Our relationship with them over millennia has shaped our reality.
Today they seem to have lost their power.
When I arrived in Orońsko I didn’t know what the in-situ installation would look like. From the very beginning I listened and observed the place, seeking coherence and coexistence.
I came across an old dead tree, majestically covered with ivy. This sight convinced me that plants in this place manifest different cultural-nature <> nature-cultural paradigms.
The plants present in the installation space are carriers of old meanings and contemporary stories. The tree, vines, rhizomes, roots, wheat, and strange fruiting bodies enter into an unnamed relationships.
The chaos of meanings seeks for patterns in the presence of the viewer.
POLIMORFIUM
"POLIMORFIUM" - IN SITU INSTALLATION
Jokingly speaking, the installation is a strange feeder that must have escaped from some story by Stanisław Lem (polish science-fiction writer). It is set on an old, withered tree covered with ivy that is located at Polish Sculpture Center Park in Orońsko.
The biomorphic form gains an interesting ontology through the introduction of biological life. Seeds planted on it have grown into the installation. When they sprouted, they formed a strong roots network merged with the fabric and gnawed through the clay. Materials interact with the natural cycles of the park. We cannot determine what belongs to nature and what to culture without a scalpel.
The rusty tails of squirrels amusingly scurry around with green nuts in their mouths. Autumn is coming and it’s dry. A large sack of wheat – for the nearby non-human Others – it’s an opportunity to stock up for winter. Decay and decomposition will feed microorganisms, fungi, insects, birds, small mammals, lizards, and snakes.
Biochemical reactions occur between substances in the installation. Iron-rich clay, formed in geological eons covers cotton fibers. The fabric soaks up the clay covering the rusting wires. Rust dyes the cotton which becomes the substrate for the wheat’s root network. The plants life enters into a relationship with the eons stored in the clay.
The in-situ installation opens a field of observation and inquiry.
PROCES
The relationship between substances and organisms creates a hybrid semi-organism. I wanted to include both appropriation and care in the installation, positioning the tendrils of action towards non-humans in such a way that the anthropocentric need to create on a dry tree is fused with an equally strong gesture of support for nature.
Plants, strongly present in our culture participated long ago in the development of civilization. Our relationship with them over millennia has shaped our reality.
Today they seem to have lost their power.
When I arrived in Orońsko I didn’t know what the in-situ installation would look like. From the very beginning I listened and observed the place, seeking coherence and coexistence.
I came across an old dead tree, majestically covered with ivy. This sight convinced me that plants in this place manifest different cultural-nature <> nature-cultural paradigms.
The plants present in the installation space are carriers of old meanings and contemporary stories. The tree, vines, rhizomes, roots, wheat, and strange fruiting bodies enter into an unnamed relationships.
The chaos of meanings seeks for patterns in the presence of the viewer.