Archivum Naturae
Ana Palacio, Andrea Nosetti
Living organisms transformed into archives, images, fragments, and reproducible structures.
Archivum Naturae brings together Ana Palacio and Andrea Nosetti in a reflection on the ways living organisms are transformed into archives, images, fragments, and reproducible structures.
Nature appears here not as an untouched landscape, but as a territory shaped by displacement, technological mediation, extraction, and survival. Birds from southern Latin America and digitally reproduced insects become traces of ecosystems under pressure, suspended between preservation and disappearance.
Two approaches to the natural archive
In her series YAJNA, Ana Palacio works with images of birds whose habitats have been altered by human intervention. Adopting the visual language of documents and scientific records, the works consider ecological imbalance as well as the violence embedded in observation, classification, and possession.
Andrea Nosetti begins with a digital model and transforms it through 3D printing, fragmentation, repetition, and shifts in scale. The insect body gradually loses its biological integrity and becomes an abstract sculptural structure, oscillating between fossil, artefact, and digital replica.
Rather than offering a nostalgic image of nature, Archivum Naturae asks what remains when living systems are displaced into archives, databases, representations, and artificial habitats.
Credits
Archivum Naturae was a Berlin-based project by Karne Kunst gUG, under the artistic direction of Marcela Villanueva, and presented at Bardo Projektraum.