Nature Exposed
Posted on September 22 2024
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NATURE EXPOSED │ 6 September - 3 October, 2024
Event curated by LoosenArt
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Text by Silvia Colombo, Antonio Muratore
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As theories of visual culture demonstrate, since ancient times the iconographic image has been a very important form of transmission and diffusion of human knowledge.
Starting from the late Victorian period, photography became a fundamental medium for scientific research, fully responding to the need to catalog and bear witness to inquiries into the natural world. Being photography considered a means that offers an objective vision of reality, when combined with data and texts, it is welcomed by the academic environment as an ideal means for the documentary transmission of scientific results.
In the fields of botany, anatomy, and in the study of behavior, micro/macroscopic observations, etc., contemporary technology offers more and more tools that help us understand the world, tools that broaden our perception and determine our awareness of it.
The group exhibition Nature Exposed hosted at the Millepiani space in Rome from 6 September to 3 October 2024, collects photographic, video and digital works able to offer a new and fascinating look on the natural world. An exhibition characterized by references to art of the past but also by new visual perceptions obtained from the use of new technologies.
Starting from the late Victorian period, photography became a fundamental medium for scientific research, fully responding to the need to catalog and bear witness to inquiries into the natural world. Being photography considered a means that offers an objective vision of reality, when combined with data and texts, it is welcomed by the academic environment as an ideal means for the documentary transmission of scientific results.
In the fields of botany, anatomy, and in the study of behavior, micro/macroscopic observations, etc., contemporary technology offers more and more tools that help us understand the world, tools that broaden our perception and determine our awareness of it.
The group exhibition Nature Exposed hosted at the Millepiani space in Rome from 6 September to 3 October 2024, collects photographic, video and digital works able to offer a new and fascinating look on the natural world. An exhibition characterized by references to art of the past but also by new visual perceptions obtained from the use of new technologies.
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Danni Wang, Tian Qin, The Light Before they Die, 2024 │Watch the Video
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The exhibition invites viewers to immerse themselves in nature, at times revealing the invisible and the microscopic through the lens of contemporary art. Like a vast herbarium of the present, this exhibition is a collection of naturalia and artificialia, a broad catalogue that oscillates between what is revealed and what remains hidden from our eyes, between what we know and what we are still learning to distinguish.
Photography, an essential medium for scientific documentation, here becomes an artistic tool to explore the complex and fragile relationship between humans and the natural environment. Each photograph serves as a pretext to delve into broader themes, such as climate and environmental phenomena, changing landscapes, and endangered species, reminding us of our interconnectedness with the planet and the precariousness of life’s balance.
Through works that explore natural elements on both large and small scales—from landscapes to individual leaves—the exhibition invites reflection on global contemporary issues such as climate change and biodiversity. The artists in the show play on the threshold between the visible and the invisible, with images that tell hidden stories and reveal imperceptible phenomena, urging viewers to look beyond the surface of things.
Photography, an essential medium for scientific documentation, here becomes an artistic tool to explore the complex and fragile relationship between humans and the natural environment. Each photograph serves as a pretext to delve into broader themes, such as climate and environmental phenomena, changing landscapes, and endangered species, reminding us of our interconnectedness with the planet and the precariousness of life’s balance.
Through works that explore natural elements on both large and small scales—from landscapes to individual leaves—the exhibition invites reflection on global contemporary issues such as climate change and biodiversity. The artists in the show play on the threshold between the visible and the invisible, with images that tell hidden stories and reveal imperceptible phenomena, urging viewers to look beyond the surface of things.
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Olena Lemberska, Chronicle of a Disappearance, 2019
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In this exhibition, nature is not merely a subject to be contemplated but a starting point for broader discussions that touch on the fragility of life and the balance between wakefulness and sleep, between the rational and the irrational. The works become visual metaphors for the similarities and symbiosis between humans and nature, between the natural and the artificial, evoking a sense of nostalgia for a past when childhood and nature were inseparably linked.
There is no distinction between noble herbs and weeds: every natural element, even the seemingly humblest, finds a place in this visual archive, revealing an inclusive beauty far removed from traditional standards. Like a modern florilegium, Nature Exposed gathers stories and fragments of the natural world, inviting us to reflect on what we have already lost and what we might still save. Spazio Millepiani thus becomes a space for global reflection on nature and humanity, a place where art and science meet to reveal reality in its rawest and most authentic form, but also in its immense and fragile beauty.
There is no distinction between noble herbs and weeds: every natural element, even the seemingly humblest, finds a place in this visual archive, revealing an inclusive beauty far removed from traditional standards. Like a modern florilegium, Nature Exposed gathers stories and fragments of the natural world, inviting us to reflect on what we have already lost and what we might still save. Spazio Millepiani thus becomes a space for global reflection on nature and humanity, a place where art and science meet to reveal reality in its rawest and most authentic form, but also in its immense and fragile beauty.
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Bergina Leka, The Wait, 2023 / Marco Battezzati, Paradigma Naturale - Ferula Communis, 2022
Anna Biletska, In Love; Winged, 2020
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Lera Zilbershtein, Subtlety, 2023
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Lera Zilbershtein, Beads, 2024
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Skyler Trigger, Starflower, 2022
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NATURE EXPOSED
6 September - 3 October, 2024
Millepiani - Via N. Odero,13, Rome - IT
linfo@millepiani.eu
+39 06.888.17.620
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