Eden Project News - Super Natural art exhibition about the relationship between people and plants

Environment / Art Calendar, September 25, 2022.

Eden Project news - "Super Natural" art exhibition about the relationship between people and plants.

September 24, 2022 to February 26, 2023, Core Gallery Eden Cornwall. 

Patricia Dominguez  - Matrix Vegetal, 2021/22  - 4k video, 21:12 min, and installation with totem and mandrake (Film stills) 

Commissioned by Screen City Biennial with the support of Cecilia Brunson Projects 

Dusseldorf, September 25, 2022: A new exhibition at the Eden Project explores the relationship between people and plants. On view are works by artists including Kedisha Coakley, Patricia Domínguez, Iman Datoo, Ingela Ihrman, Eduardo Navarro, and Ai Weiwei. The exhibition aims to celebrate the power of imagination to reconnect us to the natural world. 


Works on view include Ai Weiwei's Fly (2019) from the Roots series; iron sculptures cast from Brazilian tree roots that could be over a thousand years old. Roots reflects ancient cultures and man's first tools, as well as an "uprooting" that reflects Ai Weiwei's life after he was allowed to leave China in 2015, and the plight of indigenous people that he has documented for years. Eden Project curator Hannah Hooks: "Every living thing on Earth is interconnected, and this exhibition includes a variety of artworks that explore and challenge our perceptions of the natural world and our role in it by focusing on our relationships with plants."


Eden Project

The Eden Project, owned by the Eden Trust, was founded in 2001 as the so-called Millennium Project, and describes itself as a global arts, science and education charity. It houses a gallery, museum, event center, laboratory and university. The Eden Trust has established other sites in China, Australia, New Zealand and continues to grow. Eden Project Cornwall has over one million visitors annually. The world-renowned Biomes house a living ethnobotanical collection. To date, artists exhibited include: El Anatsui, Wolfgang Buttress, Hayden Dunham, Ryan Gander, Jenny Kendler, Julian Opie, Peter Randall-Page, Tim Shaw Studio Swine.

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Düsseldorf, 25. September 2022: Eine neue Ausstellung im Eden Project erforscht die Beziehung zwischen Menschen und Pflanzen. Zu sehen sind Werke von Künstlern wie Kedisha Coakley, Patricia Domínguez, Iman Datoo, Ingela Ihrman, Eduardo Navarro und Ai Weiwei. Die Ausstellung soll die Kraft der Vorstellungskraft feiern, die uns wieder mit der natürlichen Welt verbindet. 


Zu sehen sind u. a. Ai Weiweis Werk Fly (2019) aus der Serie Roots; Eisen-Skulpturen, die aus brasilianischen Baumwurzeln gegossen wurden, die über tausend Jahre alt sein könnten. Roots reflektiert alte Kulturen und die ersten Werkzeuge des Menschen sowie eine "Entwurzelung", die Ai Weiweis Leben widerspiegelt, nachdem er 2015 China verlassen durfte, sowie die Notlage der indigenen Bevölkerung, die er seit Jahren dokumentiert. Die Kuratorin des Eden-Projekts, Hannah Hooks:“Jedes Lebewesen auf der Erde ist miteinander verbunden, und diese Ausstellung umfasst eine Vielzahl von Kunstwerken, die unsere Wahrnehmung der natürlichen Welt und unserer Rolle darin untersuchen und herausfordern, indem sie sich auf unsere Beziehungen zu Pflanzen konzentrieren.


Das Eden Project, das dem Eden Trust gehört, wurde 2001 als sogenanntes Millenniumsprojekt gegründet, und bezeichnet sich selbst als eine globale Wohltätigkeitsorganisation für Kunst, Wissenschaft und Bildung. Es beherbergt eine Galerie, Museum, Eventcenter, Labor und Universität. Der Eden Trust hat weitere Standorte eingerichtet in China, Australien, Neuseeland und wächst weiter. Eden Project Cornwall hat jährlich über eine Million Besucher.


Die weltbekannten Biomes beherbergen eine lebende ethnobotanische Sammlung. Bislang wurden Künstler ausgestellt wie: El Anatsui, Wolfgang Buttress, Hayden Dunham, Ryan Gander, Jenny Kendler, Julian Opie, Peter Randall-Page, Tim Shaw Studio Swine.


Photos of the artworks and installations

Ai Weiwei Fly, 2019  - Cast iron, 173 x 396 x 288 cm  - © Ai Weiwei; Courtesy of the Artist and Lisson Gallery 

Ai Weiwei Fly, 2019  - Cast iron, 173 x 396 x 288 cm  - © Ai Weiwei; Courtesy of the Artist and Lisson Gallery 

Patricia Domínguez

Patricia Domínguez's digital and sculptural work Matrix Vegetal is a video work presented in a futuristic totem that explores South American quantum thinking, dream fiction, and organic connection technologies. 


Patricia Domínguez' digitales und skulpturales Werk Matrix Vegetal ist eine Videoarbeit, die in einem futuristischen Totem präsentiert wird und das südamerikanisches Quantendenken, Traumfiktion und organische Verbindungstechnologien untersucht. 

Patricia Dominguez  - Matrix Vegetal, 2021/22  - 4k video, 21:12 min, and installation with totem and mandrake (Film stills) 

Commissioned by Screen City Biennial with the support of Cecilia Brunson Projects 

Patricia Dominguez  - Matrix Vegetal, 2021/22  - 4k video, 21:12 min, and installation with totem and mandrake (Film stills) 

Commissioned by Screen City Biennial with the support of Cecilia Brunson Projects 

Patricia Dominguez  - Matrix Vegetal, 2021/22  - 4k video, 21:12 min, and installation with totem and mandrake (Film stills) 

Commissioned by Screen City Biennial with the support of Cecilia Brunson Projects 

Patricia Dominguez  - Matrix Vegetal, 2021/22  - 4k video, 21:12 min, and installation with totem and mandrake (Film stills) 

Commissioned by Screen City Biennial with the support of Cecilia Brunson Projects 

Ingela Ihrman

Swedish artist Ingela Ihrman aims to explore the connections between gut and marine flora with A Great Seaweed day: Gut Weed (2019). The dyed silk is based on Ulva Intestinalis - an algae known as "mermaid's necklace" or "gut weed."


Die schwedische Künstlerin Ingela Ihrman möchte mit A Great Seaweed day: Gut Weed (2019) die Verbindungen zwischen Darm- und Meeresflora untersuchen. Die gefärbte Seide basiert auf Ulva Intestinalis - einer Alge, die als "Meerjungfrauenkette" oder "Darmkraut" bekannt ist.

Ingela Ihrman  - A Great Seaweed Day: Gut Weed (Ulva Intestinalis), 2019  - Textile, silk, glue and dye, dimensions variable 

The Biomes inside the Eden Project in Cornwall

Max Siegmayer, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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