'Herbarium' is a cinematographic observation based on the changes in the classification of plants. Going from classical taxonomy to genetic data-storage, Visser wonders what is left when the plant its separated from its physical features. What is a plant to us, without the sensation of smell, texture and its visual appearance?
In a long abandoned tropical greenhouse formerly used by the biology faculty of Wageningen University, during a full moon night, the dry plants are reanimated, in a visual language where nature is shown as an artefact, devoid of any natural context. First shown at the exhibition (Re)Source in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

(Re)Source/ Beelden op de Berg, 14 juni – 15 september 2013

curated by Koos Flinterman and Krijn Christiaanse

Arboretum Belmonte, Wageningen

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For the tenth time, Stichting Beelden op de Berg is organizing an international exhibition in the Arboretum Belmonte in Wageningen. The curator Koos Flinterman and co-curator Krijn Christiaansen have chosen two themes for this edition that are central to both contemporary visual art and science: authenticity and manipulation.

The results include a fifteen-metre-long chicken run with two pheasant-like primeval chickens from the Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen’s Cosmopolitan Chicken Project; a film by Barbara Visser about the deserted tropical greenhouse near the arboretum; a series of tomato plants growing between thin sheets of perspex, a bio-printer, and modified historic audio recordings of African music.

Curators: Koos Flinterman and co-curators Krijn Christiaansen and Marieke Berkers

Participants: Maria Barnas (NL), Stefaan Dheedene (B), Driessens & Verstappen (NL), Nick Ervinck (B), Tue Greenfort (DK), Agency (Int.), Simon Martin (UK), Koen Vanmechelen (B), and Barbara Visser (NL).