An art exhibition to create awareness for the Alberoni dunes system in Lido of Venice.
Artists for plants is a movement of artists who aim to spread awareness about the vital importance of plants in human life.
Monica Martin
“A thread for the environment", collective action based on an idea by Monica Martin.
The intervention consists of a rope stretched between reeds and trees in the nature reserve, a thread that represents the physical support and symbolic thread to unite in a single choral expression poems, drawings, photographs, natural elements, musical compositions and any other element and artefact chosen and designed for this collective action.
Monica hangs the contributions of each of the 130 participants citizens in the installation next to each other, like many little flags, thus evoking the well-known Tibetan flags in the specific sense of collective prayer in defence and blessing of the environment..
Giulia Mattera
Plants+Sleep
Plants+Sleep is an ongoing project investigating the intersection between plants and the human body during sleep.
Alberto Magrin
Me by Night
The roots of a tree (maritime pine) are born from a human heart. Human sensitivity should protect and safeguard the climate and nature in all its forms. The earth breathes through the process of chlorophyll photosynthesis and basically we breathe through it. Our life on Earth depends on the tree in all its forms, starting from the tree of knowledge, symbolically speaking, up to every tree that allows us to breathe.
Since I was born in Rapallo, Liguria, I connected my existence to the marine climate of the Ligurian Riviera which is perfumed and flooded by the presence of pine forests, but the maritime pine in this work becomes only a symbol that involves and represents all kinds of trees that help people to live and survive even in cities polluted by humanity'.
Emanuela Tornatore
Terra Madre
"Terra Madre", a great and generous mother who feeds her children in balance between the elements. The work was created with the use of recycled material. Debris collected along the dams of the Venice lagoon. My intervention is an intermediate step in a path that starts from the wood of the trees, which is transformed into a useful, discarded object and abandoned and then transformed by me again.
Mario Alimede
Let the plants breathe
Experimental drypoint, burin and shellac. The title is inspired by George Floyd's last words and references to the cry for help that Nature addresses to us every day in this climate emergency.
Carlo De Gaetano, Andy Dockett and Sabine Niederer
All Gone: Co-authoring climate imaginaries with AI
All Gone is a series of experiments with AI that build on existing collections of climate fiction to create much-needed new climate imaginaries. As the climate crisis is also a “crisis of imagination” (Ghosh, 2016), this project turns to the art genre that is best at forecasting and imagining alternative futures: science fiction. Using collections of ‘cli-fi’ novels, in which science fiction meets natural disaster or heavy weather, algorithms are trained until they are able to render new climate imaginaries in textual and visual form. The edited texts and curated images are further developed into audio stories and a tarot deck as tools for reflection on present and future living with a changing climate.
Andrea del Garbo
Pelléas
This work, which recalls the ancestral symbol created by Maurice Maeterlink, is intended to represent an ideal of a human being that is both new and ancient, past and future, nature and culture at the same time.
Chiara Ferrin
Private gardens
Closed inside fences that protect from prying eyes, and considered pure adornment, the man's axe breaks down on them; men are more and more accustomed to considering the trees of their gardens as a private property, on which they are allowed to wield all of their power. Nature, the spontaneous and rebellious one, is not expected to express itself freely outside the wire mesh, so it must be tamed, repressed, mutilated. What is vital about a tree, does not seem to matter. It is elsewhere, where man no longer intervenes, that nature makes its revolution and reproduces itself. Challenging us.
Ana Sofía Camarga
Mitos Del Cafe
During an art residency with Creativa Coffee District, a specialty coffee processing company, I realized that despite the normalization of coffee, centuries of colonial mass production schemes had obscured its process. The coffee industry is sustained by myths. From my research, I observed that labor exploitation, and mass migration, were some of the social byproducts of coffee production, particularly in the conventional coffee production. I crafted paper from coffee berry husks and coffee grounds, byproducts from the coffee process, engraved the myths into the paper and hung them in my neighboring rainforest. Within days, after several rainstorms, the paper fell to the ground and was consumed by the soil becoming, then, a part of the forest.
I submitted these works to The Art Network Call in Alberoni, Venice, Italy, because I identified with the project's intersectional approach to environmental conservation. I also believe that these works, in their ephemeral nature, resemble the fragility of the ecosystem in Alberoni making a very important parallelism about these endangered habitats.
Benna Gaean Maris
Almost Peer
“Common wild oat is a plant that you can confront with.” My confrontation with nature, face to face with a plant of wild oat (Avena fatua L., 1753) a poaceae that is considered infesting, but yet its small seeds contain nourishment. Which role a human being has in nature, facing an allegedly infesting plant? It offers nourishment to animals: can you say the same for a human? Or rather he is the true infestation, with his counter-ecological practices that put under threat thousands species of the planet.
Uri Yitzchak Noy Meir
Voicing Gaia
Throughout the histories of human cultures, connecting with nature’s wisdom allowed us to expand our awareness of self and others. In VOICING GAIA we engage and iterate a participatory vision of democracy were all voices (human and non) are heard and considered. We create video performances that are leading towards a citizen-led policymaking dialogue were we embody the intelligence of the heart and stage empathy in action to awaken and inform our human beingness and human becomingness.
Jennifer Weigel
Regret
‘Media: Found broken chair, shredded paper, faux apples
Statement: We cannot cut down a tree to make a chair and then turn that chair back into a tree. We cannot make paper into leaves. What’s done is done. We must learn to make our peace with nature and preserve what we can before it is too late.
Cristina Pacquola
Another Green World
The project is inspired by the book "La nazione delle Piante" by Stefano Mancuso, a beloved reading and a source of reflection/expression. "The Plant Nation" proposes eight rules from which to rethink our place on this planet, making different choices with a different impact, in respect and harmony with the environment that surrounds us.
Starting from the "Charter of the Rights of Plants" described in the essay, the 8 articles will be explained through the painting and colors of the artist Caterina Margherita and narrated musically by Cristina Pacquola, founder of the label Electronicgirls, Venice.
The live will be recorded and presented in the area of Alberoni (Venice), a place known and dear to the two resident Venetian artists. The colors become one with the music to pay homage.
Cristina Cherchi
My nature is fire and water
The Alberoni vegetation, set in both architectural and natural context. The nature represented is not a paradise, nor is it a faithful reproduction of the surrounding reality. The subjects-objects are not placed in their natural habitat, but the world is upside down. The color is totally distorted and turned towards something surreal.
Will nature become artificial and unnatural and be produced by current technology as a substitute for the real thing? Mixing nature and anti-nature to seek a balance between them.
Michele Liuzzi
Stage rehearsal for photosynthetic fragments in random order
The project was born from the collection of objects found in the site of Alberoni (the beach, the coast, the cliff) and in its vicinity.
The idea was to create a link between the land and the sea. A virtuous link: land/sea/sky. I imagined a figure in the act of offering itself to the waves and the winds by detaching itself from the ground and hovering in the air.
Thus a makeshift raft took shape, ready to face the sea and the wind, challenging fate.
Teresa Venchierutti.
Epica delle piante tra mare e Terra.
You could call it an Iconography, a Narrative of the heroic deeds of the plants and flowers that inhabit the Alberoni Dunes. Their strength continues to be a magical mystery, filling the world with shapes and colours. Special mentions go to Eryngium maritimum and Fumana Procumbens which have taken shape, "stylised", in my lampshade.