What would happen if a museum allowed you to look underground? And, when pulling a corner, a hidden world emerges, complex i vibrant, usually relegated to invisibility? Radix proposes this possibility through an ecological fable that shifts the gaze to the depths of history, the culture and memories of the underground.
Tania Candiani's project imagines a fictitious biome inhabited by entities that oscillate between the scientific and the speculative, between the observable and the imagined. It is presented as an immersive installation conceived as a hybrid ecosystem, where live plants live, blown glass sculptures, suspended organisms, a rhizotro (device that allows you to observe the growth of the roots), audiovisual projections in cross dialogue and an octophonic sound composition that surrounds the space. Each of these elements functions as a fragment of a larger system, interdependent, where the separation between the living and the inert is erased.
The exhibition hall is architecturally transformed to adopt a smooth and radial geometry, inspired by the cross-section of a plant structure found in a book from the Botanical Garden of Valencia. This spatial configuration does not only act as a container, but as a body in itself, like an expanded anatomy that suggests the presence of an imagined plant, a possible way of life that could belong - or have belonged - to the Valencian territory, but whose origin remains uncertain, suspended between botanical memory and science fiction.
In this sense, Radix it does not seek to represent nature as we know it, but to speculate on its possible mutations, micromons i futurs, inviting to reconsider the borders between species, disciplines and states of matter, as well as to reflect on the invisible forces that sustain life, fostering an awareness of hidden networks both above and below ground.
