Video Installation
22 min video loop, hanging glass sculptures, azolla fern, sand, fog difusers. 

Concept, camera, editing, glass sculptures: Stella Horta 
Performers: Natasha Virgilio, Rachel Bo, Emeka Ene, Deva Schubert
Composition: Tom Lönqvist, Usof

azolla allegory






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ꕀ ꕀ ꕀ Events cascaded out of a single symbiotic encounter. 
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ꕀ Arctic sediments hold memories as our feet sink slowly into warm water. 
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Photo: André Uerba

Azolla Allegory makes use of the visual metaphor of a freshwater fern and its symbiotic relationship with a blue-green cyanobacteria. This cyanobacteria has imprinted its genetic essence upon this fern, resulting in cascade of events during the Eocene era. Traces of this event are visible in ancient Arctic sediments. Azolla Allegory proposes to make visible the complex web of agencies and dynamic interactions between organisms and environments that over time become bodies.











What if we could perceive our environments as active generators of life forms, rather than
passive settings for life to exist? This stands in contrast to the conventional exobiological NASA mantra that Earth's water
made it suitable for life, Azolla Allegory focuses on another perspective: that all biospheric processes are rooted in relationships and water may have remained on Earth due to the continuous activities of life, which is mostly water.




















Photo: Ariana Krieger



Video Installation 22 min video loop, hanging glass sculptures, azolla fern, sand, fog difusers.


Concept, camera, editing, glass sculptures: Stella Horta
Performers: Natasha Virgilio, Rachel Bo, Emeka Ene, Deva Schubert
Outside eye: Judith Förster
Sound composition: Tom Lönqvist, Usof, Stella Horta
Costumes: Iva Hoes, Stella Horta
Pillows: Jona Carstensen


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Interactions between organisms and environments generated bodies.
ꕀ ꕀ
ꕀ
ꕀ  ꕀ  
ꕀ ꕀ ꕀ Events cascaded out of a single symbiotic encounter. 
ꕀ ꕀ
ꕀ ꕀ ꕀ
ꕀ ꕀ ꕀ ꕀ ꕀ  
ꕀ ꕀ ꕀ ꕀ
ꕀ ꕀ ꕀ
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ꕀ Arctic sediments hold memories as our feet sink slowly into warm water. 






Azolla Allegory makes use of the visual metaphor of a freshwater fern and its symbiotic relationship with a blue-green cyanobacteria. This cyanobacteria has imprinted its genetic essence upon this fern, resulting in cascade of events during the Eocene era. Traces of this event are visible in ancient Arctic sediments. Azolla Allegory proposes to make visible the complex web of agencies and dynamic interactions between organisms and environments that over time become bodies.







What if we could perceive our environments as active generators of life forms, rather than passive settings for life to exist? This stands in contrast to the exobiological NASA mantra that Earth's water made it suitable for life, Azolla Allegory focuses on another perspective: that all biospheric processes are rooted in relationships and water may have remained on Earth due to the continuous activities of life, which is mostly water