Ha I I Hwa | Artificial defence mechanism

Plants are self-sufficient in surviving and defending themselves through the most sophisticated processes and adaptations to the environment, but they are not alone in this: the most recent technological studies have made it possible for artificial intelligence to intervene in the mechanisms of plants, creating artificial environments, among other advances. However, while these discoveries may be a boon for nature, the Korean artist asks how these interventions will affect its natural defence mechanisms.

Why does technology tend to forget the organic forms of nature and always emphasise rectilinear, artificial figures? Ha I I Hwa confronts these two defence mechanisms, the natural and the artificial, in an installation that looks to the future not only in its appearance, but also in the message hidden behind the beauty of botanical forms.

“I wanted to visualise in the Palacio de Viana the most artificial forms of the artificial defence mechanisms. This representation aims to raise awareness of the crisis of technology by excluding the roughness and flexibility of nature and emphasising artificial forms.”
(Ha I I Hwa)