Rite of fall, 2020
Fresco, 2,5 x 18 meters approx.
Realized in occasion of the exhibition “Moving plants”, now permanently in Palmengarten, Frankfurt (DE)
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“Birth, growth, death, decay—these are some of the forms with which plants move between the two worlds, above and below ground. Agnese Galiotto depicts an inverted universe in her frescoes, an upside-down version of the human-made system of the botanical garden, which was created to protect the plants. In her fresco, a fallen tree extends in the shade of the citrus trees and merges with the surrounding vegetation. Its dry branches suggest that this once living organism was the victim of a natural disaster: a fire that burned down a mountain slope near the artist’s parents home in the Small Dolomites. A self-portrait with her hen can be seen behind the bushes in the pavilion.
The painted birds are also not what they appear to be: when looked at closely, it becomes clear that they are stuffed. They become an artificial imitation of what life once was. Agnese Galiotto creates a microcosm that subtly reveals the garden’s staged systems and questions the anthropocentric need for control.”
Teodora Talhos and Maren Feller
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