Ana Azpeitia

Biophilia: The project.

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The place is an abandoned space, with walls deteriorated by humidity with growing dark stains and different layers of paint peeling off. A huge framed old window brings light into the enclosure. The perfect habitat for the project.

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The materials used were all recycled: every day carton boxes, VHS video tape and ivy cuttings.

The boxes are distributed in seven clusters roughly painted with white walls paint. They pretend to remind us our most common house looks, as human habitats.

The video tapes hang from  most of these clusters as if they were fish out, as the physical remains of forgotten memories, old data  that has no more use, part of the constant debris of our culture.

The ivy grows from the floor into one of the clusters. It is trying to reach our own habitat.

 

Some plants have and invasive nature in a fight for territory, for ownership. The ivy is a plant that is famous for killing the trees where it grows to the extreme that kills its own source of life.

With this installation I am questioning the constantly criticized human behaviour: how much are we destroying our own natural habitat with our constantly growing constructions and artificial debris?, but is our behaviour so unnatural?, does not the rest of the nature behave in the same way? ...