Post Human Garden

Post Human Garden is a site specific project created by Maria Rebecca Ballestra especially for the sala Camino/Fireplace Room in the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art. Following her latest research linked to the post-human theme, and reflecting on the borders between nature and science and between artificial and natural, the artist has created a new multimedia work, inspired by the most recent debates regarding genetic modification, transgenic creations and biotechnology. An artificial garden will be created in the Museum room in collaboration with CRA-FSO Unità di Ricerca per la Floricoltura e le Specie Ornamentali – Research Unit for floriculture and Ornamental Species of Sanremo. It's consist of plants – in pots and in vitro – in strange and original shapes, with the aim of simulating an environment populated by plant species and transgenic flowers. The garden is enhanced by the projection of DNA mapping of plants and cellular material in test tubes.
The work is completed with an interactive sound installation created by the Taiwanese artist Wen Chin Fu: human presence, as a outside element in an environment dominated by artificial nature, is the alien factor that activates the installation itself, trigging particular sounds, music and noises each time someone passes.