Lament at NaturArchy: Towards a natural contract

Arte, Arti Performative

https://margheritapevere.com/lament/, Brussels, Quai des Charbonnages 30 , 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium

12/06/2024 - 29/09/2024

Lament, which is currently exhibited at Brussels’ iMAL – Art center for digital cultures and technology, calls us to encounter a death bed, a white colour-dominated setting with traces of soil on a milky floor surface. Above it, as if they are levitating, we see one hundred organically-shaped glass sculptures. As we find out, they contain soil microbes, charcoal, and moss which Pevere herself collected after visiting wildfire areas across Europe. With her distinctive embrace of living matter as an artistic tool, Pevere treated the materials reflecting on how their transformation can unfold stories of urgency, death and rebirth. And it is exactly this transformation of the artwork that repeat visitors will notice – growing out of their glass habitats at iMAL, the seemingly dead matter comes back to life.