24 Apr Ara Dolatian
Residency Programme: October 2016
Ara Dolatian creates small ecosystems: some, made with moss, some others with vegetation, encapsulated in glass or methacrylate, generating controlled atmospheres in which the life, as well as the artwork transform autonomously.
During the residency, Dolatian has created small worlds taking as a reference and material the most predominant natural element of the surrounding: the big rock of the mountains.
[…] A hybrid ecosystem simultaneously resembles a semi functional apparatus, the model of a utopian city and a biological experiment.
In the course of history, the accidental relationships between nature and culture have hardened into a dualism. Whatever was wild nature was supposed to be civilized by culture, but whatever was culturally moulded could not be considered natural. It is through this conceptual antagonism that to this day, we perceive our natural environment.
