Research

Building on laboratory procedures, the Technofossils series explores a leaf clearing process using light. By introducing resin, cleared leaves are trapped into polymeric matter and illuminated from below. Each numbered element is the visible-invisible representation of a story, a forest-laboratory artefact of vegetal and artificial nature.

As part of BIO25, the research investigated the hyperaccumulator plant Thlaspi praecox, an endemic species that grows in Slovenja, within the Mežica Valley area. Activies involves laboratory work, on site field-work, and public engagement activities in the gallery, to explore the plant’ role in environmental and cultural remediation.

Geomerce’s landing at NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf explored the complex interactions between endemic ecotypes of Arabidopsis halleri and a contaminated site in North-Rhine-Westphalia, shedding light on how encounters between people and hyperaccumulating flora become formed through lab, field, and exhibit work.

Building on design activism and agricultural drone technologies, Vegetal Rescuers engages hyperaccumulators in processes of cultural and environmental healing. By growing on territories of political disputation, the work challenges human control and prompts to rethink our relationship with contaminated landscapes.