“INSPIRING PLANTS 智性植物”
is an art intervention exhibition at Taipei Collectible Botanical Garden, which is a modern green house in the heart of Taipei city.
The exhibition with nineteen artists features a collection of botanical and contemporary artworks inspired by plants. Art is juxtaposed and integrated to the existing collection of living plants of the garden: from tropical, to subtropical, temperate and alpine species. This coexistence not only creates a dialogue of diversity: vegetal and aesthetic, yet represents the manifestation of a relation between man-plants, man-nature stimulating an ecological thinking beyond anthropocentrism. With the possibility of sliding into the exhibition, shaking and letting go of our way of thinking, the narrative starts with the encounter of plants themselves and their significance for our ecosystem, counteracting our human incapability to see plants in one's own environments, so called “plant blindness”. The exhibition is articulated horizontally through art and plants and vertically through the philosophical connection between and beyond these fields.
Botanical art represents the objective eye, the conscious observation in slowed down time, while contemporary art represents the subjective and innovative force of creation across architecture and robotics and multiple media. The fascination of beauty through carved painting, photography, sculpture, performance art, drawing, video, sound.. indirectly suggests and stimulates a harmonic dialogical approach to nature as direction of our future.
