Flowers by Bornay | Mobilis in mobili

With the Latin locution Mobilis in mobili (“movement between movement”) invented by Jules Verne in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as an imaginative springboard, Flowers by Bornay aims to focus our attention on a plant as fascinating as the Tillandsia usneoides, a surprising example of resilience capable of living solely on environmental humidity, without the need for irrigation.

A sundial crowns this courtyard which, in FLORA, houses another, very particular clock: the one represented by a kinetic installation that plays at converting time, this abstraction, into something tangible and vital. The movement of the waters of the clock is represented in a great spiral where it is not science that marks the passing of time, but nature and its cycles. A great living structure that, with the minimum conditions of humidity, could last almost eternally.

“Mobilis in mobili is a poetic ode to vegetable intelligence and its eternal dance with the passing of the hours. A living clock that marks the passing of time not in seconds, but in cycles of life, growth and evolution”.
(Flowers by Bornay)