A Transparent Leaf Instead Of The Mouth

Mondes Flottants, 14 Biennale de Lyon, 2017

In the centre of the space is a curved, glass pavilion that houses a garden containing plants and animals. An ecosystem was created in the pavilion, where autochthonous trees and shrubs coexist with exotic species of stick insects and leaf insects, which feed from them in a complex web of interdependencies. These insects adopt a form of mimicry so extreme as a life strategy that they dissolve into their surrounding environment, raising philosophical questions about the boundaries between the subject and its environment in a system of consumptions, transfigurations and metamorphoses, both real and symbolic.

Photography: Andrea Rossetti