Lakapoliesis (2024) is a project that redefines the traditional relationship between animals and plants, reversing its anthropocentric perspective. lnspired by the illustrateci maps of Alexander Humboldt and the writings of Jagadish Chandra Bose and Monica Gagliano, Cibic creates large­ format, three-dimensional chromatic maps and vegetai compositions, aspiring to describe the emotions and sentiments of the plant world. Protagonists of the exhibition are wood sculptures, recycled aluminium, marble dust and knotted wool, giving form to a new “vegetai nomenclature” through an originai and asymmetrical narrative.

In the garden, two large-format, recycled-aluminium sculptures – createci with the support of the CIAL (National Aluminium Packaging Consortium) – tel1 the story of the immortality of this materiai and its capacity for rebirth in a multiplicity of forms.

Alongside these new works, the exhibition in the Art Pavilion includes an excerpt from Dermapoliesis (2017), a previous project in which Cibic imagined a future in which plants can generate pre-processed perfumes and other products, through a series of botanica! prototypes of a hybrid, futuristic nature that speak of new, hypothetical systems of manufacturing.

The two projects, the results of research that Cibic has been conducting unceasingly since 2017, show how the artist’s fascination with the plant world has changed over time: from a tool in the service of mankind, optimizing our production and distribution, to a mysterious object that operates in times and spaces that elude human contrai.