This exhibition borrows its name from Willliam Gibson’s first published short story, “Fragments of a Hologram Rose.” As the story notes, when a hologram is cut into pieces, even the smallest section still contains the whole of the image. In a similar way, plant cuttings and an edition of digital works can both hold these mirroring elements of origin and multiplicity. The artists featured in the exhibition were asked to imagine and create their own sci-fi plants. Like botanists from a parallel future, these artists cultivated their fictions into existence. They sub-scattered seed pods, pruned polygon cuttings, gave their models plenty of volumetric lighting, and soaked them in fluid simulations. The 3D objects in this exhibition have secret pathways and telepathic tendrils. They bloom on neon skins and disperse nano mold spores through LCD screens. Like an ikebana of poisonous flowers in zero gravity, they hover in the expanse as a collection of fragmented flora files. —Rick Silva

Feral File — Fragments of a Hologram Rose

&ldquo;Floralia II&rdquo; is part of a series inspired by the writings of Donna J. Haraway, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Greg Egan. The work plunges us into a speculative future where samples of then-extinct plant species are preserved and displayed in a virtual archive room. This archive room is sporadically transformed due to interference caused by the memory emanating from the listed plants, which reveal traces of a past that continues to haunt the place. &ldquo;Floralia II&rdquo; is a simulation of ecosystems born from the fusion of technology and organic matter, where past and future coexist in the perpetual tension of the present.

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