LANDRA ☰

SEEKING CONNECTION


Underground. Ecosistemi da esplorare
Museu Civico Villa dei Cedri
March-August 2024
Bellinzona, Switzerland

Group show curated by Carole Haensler and Joana P.R. Neves

The project comprises of two interventions, one indoors and another outdoors. In the exhibition room, a slide projector shows images of microscopic analysis we have done to the soils found both in the museum's garden and the local surrounding forests.

In the sequence of images, one could notice that shapes and forms at different scales become abstracted from their context whilst verbal annotations and diagrams gain increasing aesthetic prevalence. A bacterially-formed micro-aggregate, or a fungal strand could become lines as much as diagramatic links between names so are. Information of different kinds was shown in different colours, from black for technical and scientificly precise notes, to red for politically and sociologically motivated commentaries and interpretations.
 The room also contained a light box, with a collection of large format films, showing full size images of the fieldwork we had to do preceeding each microscopic analysis. A dialogue ensued between our own hands digging down into the different soils and the different plant communities inhabiting those places.











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