Flourishing
installation with natural objects, video, oilprints
as part of 17artgroup (T. Morozova, A. Belousova)
White Lines, Moscow,2021
Aristotle said that the noble variety of plants, animals and
humans had much more in common than the other people.
Plants experience the world in a sensory way, constantly
being in a direct dialog with the environment, agreeing with it,
interpreting conditions and finding their place among the other
creatures.
Plants have no claim to the unity of the World; on the contrary,
the fact of their being claims the other form – the accordance
With the World. Without air that plants are regenerating, the
ground they’re enriching, the nutrition they’re providing, there’s
no life. At the same time, human is one of the plants’ vital
sources (carbon dioxide and soil). All of us are involved in this
global process of birth, growth and death. Acceptance of this
kind of “inhuman” process as a fact that is impossible to fight
but to surrender, to obey it, seeing the common without sorrow
and joy and shed a tear of impotence is our step towards
maintaining our integrity. This “plant” ethics of existence
requires the courage to give up the habit of thinking of yourself
as self-centered.
video: https://youtu.be/Z9teIHYO9F8
installation with natural objects, video, oilprints
as part of 17artgroup (T. Morozova, A. Belousova)
White Lines, Moscow,2021
Aristotle said that the noble variety of plants, animals and
humans had much more in common than the other people.
Plants experience the world in a sensory way, constantly
being in a direct dialog with the environment, agreeing with it,
interpreting conditions and finding their place among the other
creatures.
Plants have no claim to the unity of the World; on the contrary,
the fact of their being claims the other form – the accordance
With the World. Without air that plants are regenerating, the
ground they’re enriching, the nutrition they’re providing, there’s
no life. At the same time, human is one of the plants’ vital
sources (carbon dioxide and soil). All of us are involved in this
global process of birth, growth and death. Acceptance of this
kind of “inhuman” process as a fact that is impossible to fight
but to surrender, to obey it, seeing the common without sorrow
and joy and shed a tear of impotence is our step towards
maintaining our integrity. This “plant” ethics of existence
requires the courage to give up the habit of thinking of yourself
as self-centered.
video: https://youtu.be/Z9teIHYO9F8
