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BRYOPHYTA


Mixed media installation
Photography | Ceramic sculptures with transducers | 4:25min sound composition with field recordings, looped  
2022  







Bryophyta is an installation that invites us to recognize our symbiotic relationship with plants and to consider them as maestros who teach us a way of being in the world. The work presents a moss-human hybrid mythical being and a sound sculpture, which imagine and explore a new type of sensory behavior with the environment. 

From observing different species of mosses and lichens on moorlands in the Andean mountains, I learned that these tiny plants have no conductive tissues, lacking stem, root and leaves. Mosses, plants belonging to the group of bryophytes, have a simple structure to absorb water from the environment and distribute it throughout their body, their relationship with the environment is open, direct and of total compenetration.

The sculptural pieces hybridize human and plant morphology: the inner parts of the human ear and the sporophytes, which are the moss filaments that allow it to reproduce.

I am interested in making special reference to listening, since I imagine that one way to be more present, open and in contact with the environment is to amplify this sense. The installation invites to bring the ear closer and listen to a sound composition made from the sounds of water, captured with a hydrophone in different moors of Colombia.


Awards
Prize for artistic work in the field Art/Nature. Ministry of Culture of Colombia, 2021

Exhibitions
Water matters. Kheireddine Palace, Tunis, Tunisia, 2023
TALK TO ME Other Histories of Nature. Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2022
Rundgang „Außer der Reihe“ KHM. Art work: Bryophyta.Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany, 2022







Documentation by Juan Francisco Rodriguez and Jazmin Rojas Forero

BRYOPHYTA


Mixed-media Installation
Photography | Ceramic sculptures with transducers,
4:25min sound composition with field recordings, looped  
2022  







Bryophyta is an installation that invites us to recognize our symbiotic relationship with plants and to consider them as maestros who teach us a way of being in the world. The work presents a moss-human hybrid mythical being and a sound sculpture, which imagine and explore a new type of sensory behavior with the environment. 

From observing different species of mosses and lichens on moorlands in the Andean mountains, I learned that these tiny plants have no conductive tissues, lacking stem, root and leaves. Mosses, plants belonging to the group of bryophytes, have a simple structure to absorb water from the environment and distribute it throughout their body, their relationship with the environment is open, direct and of total compenetration.

The sculptural pieces hybridize human and plant morphology: the inner parts of the human ear and the sporophytes, which are the moss filaments that allow it to reproduce.

I am interested in making special reference to listening, since I imagine that one way to be more present, open and in contact with the environment is to amplify this sense. The installation invites to bring the ear closer and listen to a sound composition made from the sounds of water, captured with a hydrophone in different moors of Colombia.








Instalación
Fotografía | Esculturas en cerámica y parlantes de contacto; 4:25min composición sonora con grabaciones de campo, loop
2022 


Bryophyta es una instalación que invita a reconocer nuestra relación simbiótica con las plantas y a considerarlas como maestras que nos enseñan una forma de ser en el mundo. La obra presenta a un ser mítico híbrido musgo-humano y una escultura sonora, que imaginan y exploran un nuevo tipo de comportamiento sensorial con el entorno.

A partir de observar distintas especies de musgos y líquenes en páramos de las montañas andinas, aprendí que estas plantas diminutas no tienen tejidos conductores, que carecen de tallo, raíz y hojas. Los musgos, plantas pertenecientes al grupo de las briofitas, tienen una estructura simple para absorber agua del entorno y distribuirla por todo su cuerpo, su relación con el entorno es abierta, directa y de compenetración total.

Las piezas escultóricas hibridan la morfología humana y de la planta: las partes internas del oído humano y los esporofitos, que son los filamentos del musgo que permiten su reproducción.

Me interesa hacer especial alusión a la escucha, ya que imagino que una forma de estar más presente, abierto y en compenetración con el entorno es amplificando este sentido. La instalación invita a acercar el oído y escuchar una composición sonora hecha a partir de sonidos del agua, captados con un hidrófono en distintos páramos de Colombia.


ExhibicionesTemporary Gallery, Colonia, Alemania, 2022