Sculptures of neophyte and invasive plants retrieved from the museum’s park molded on a damaged chandelier under ceiling’s moukding installed as renovation work in what was the bedroom of the villa’s private owner. R
Bijoux de parasites pour êtres centenaires, 2022.
Sculptures of neophyte, invasive plants and fungi, retrieved from the museum's park and adorning the four beech trees. Resin with phosphorescent pigments and galvanized steel chains.
The 250 years old beech trees are in complicated neighborhood with fungus Armillaria, which works as both a saprophyte and a pathogen, having the ability to move into live tissue and begin to kill the tree. Armillaria is the longest organism on hearth, having the unique ability to extend underground rhizomorphs as flat shoestringlike structures. The gems embracing the trees act as some sort of bondage talismans.
Commissioned by Museo Villa dei Ceidri for the exhibition “Icone Vegetali, Arte e Botanica nel secolo XXI”
