VINCI'23

Category

Exhibition

Year

2023

Institution

Comment

“BichEden: Folds” uses philosophy of ecology and scientific concepts related to food web communities as empirical grounding for associative thinking in the creation of imaginative 3D visualizations. Driven by how the Anthropocene extinction is perceived and experienced, the work explores visual narratives inspired by disrupted species interactions in marine food chains. Invested in a process of learning about the importance of relationships within a community of organisms, “BichEden: Folds” probes edges that meet and ‘fold’ (diminish, reduce, withdraw) and ‘unfold’ (increase, grow) like an origami, driven by a set of questions related to food web energy flows: What are the new edges and convergences? How to differentiate between the various forms of edge? How to extend these nuances of edge into the future? Involved in imagining possible new worlds, knowledges, and subjectivities - worlds in which many worlds might fit - the work’s dark and light angles, folds, and slashes represent layered transitions marked by conformities, nonconformities, paraconformities, and disconformities.