POLLEN
Inspired by the Primary Forest project of French botanist Francis Hallé that aims to recreate a primary forest in Western Europe, POLLEN questions the notions of growth, renewal and transformation in relation to the shifting boundaries between nature and culture.The project examines whether regenerative and reproductive cycles from the plant world can be used as models of collaboration and visual research between participants. Can processes such as fusion, pollination, fertilisation, grafting, fragmentation, and propagation be artistically appropriated to create a multiplicity of new forms that enable the emergence of an art-ecosystem?

To expand the creative potential of the collaboration, the project makes use of both physical and virtual spaces. Notably the use of drawing as a material, tactile language to generate form and the employment of a digital space that provides a virtual platform (inspired by video games and metaverse) where new forms of encounters and exchanges can occur. These two spaces are non-hierarchal allowing the project to develop through an interchange of ideas, where a diversity of forms co-exist and interact to create new emergent territories.
The outcome of the project aims to celebrate difference, fragility and the interdependence of all forms of life.