Common Ground
Alisha Dutt Islam, Master Fine Arts, Departement Fine Arts
The project deals with the stories of plant migration, focusing on blacklisted invasive plants from Asia and the soil which remains under concrete. A large number of plants can survive in Switzerland due to warmer climatic conditions in the last fifty years. The project links this to concretisation and summer heat in the city. The two-part project includes a social sculpture by the co-founder of Impact Hub Zurich Michal Bachmann, artist Sonja Schenkel, Micro Biologist Eric Pinto, and Earth Architect Ralph Kruenzler alongside other participants with diverse backgrounds. The second part is a series of paintings of the roots of invasive plants growing in the city. The soil is from the city alongside which the city these florae grow. Carefully curated and monitored I bring to you plants and soil that coexist alongside each other but have been tampered with and controlled. The hope is to evoke critical thinking about plant migration and the common ground on which we all reside.
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