Liaoningocladus
2022
The artist is a constructor of potential worlds, but the Anthropocene and the "sixth extinction" raise the question: Isn't it time to retrain ourselves as (re)constructors of worlds that existed? And how far is this occupation from creating utopian worlds? Most species that have ever lived on Earth have already faded into oblivion. By the end of the 21st century, the planet's biodiversity will have shrunk by leaps and bounds. And even if humans outlive their celestial neighbors, who would want to live in a desert? We seemed to have time to do something. But the probability of nuclear winter tomorrow makes us feel more acutely the approaching end of the familiar world. The participants of the "Encyclopedia of Plants", the second part of the exhibition "The Sixth Extinction", were offered to overturn the idea of universal resurrection to the Earth's past - this time flora is coming back to life. The primary resource here is a game: a game, if you will, divine, in which the artist is directly likened to the universal creator and the magnificent cosmic forces that, in reckless arbitrariness, produce new noumena and phenomena. Each artist was sent a plant name determined by chance (lottery). The further (re)construction was entirely up to the authors.