BLACK FLOWER / ECHO WHITE | TADAO CERN

DURAMEN | HARRIET PARRY

MOBILIS IN MOBILI | FLOWERS BY BORNAY

CELL | FLOWGARDENZ

ARTIFICIAL DEFENCE MECHANISM | HA I I HWA

Black flower / Echo white

TADAO CERN

Botanical communities establish complex information and support systems to survive. Plant intelligence is enlivened in situations of danger, such as lack of water. This installation starts from a simple premise – the reuse of the courtyard pool – to compose a work that recreates these collective behaviours of nature generated by interconnected root systems, chemical signals and symbiotic relationships. Tadao Cern shows these processes with the result of a landscape of white flowers naturally coloured by the black water they feed on.

Fascinated by the fusion between the diverse cultures that have historically enriched Cordoba, represented in the Archaeological Museum, the Lithuanian artist uses the symbolic power of black – a fusion of the spectrum of all colours – confronted with its opposition, white, to speak to us of solidarity, history and resistance.

“Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this installation carries an environmental message: the responsible use of our precious resources”.

(Tadao Cern)

MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO
PLAZA DE JERÓNIMO PÁEZ, 7 – CÓRDOBA

FROM 20 TO 25 OCTOBER 2022
FROM 11.00 AM TO 8.00 PM

(Opening on the 20th at 15h)

Flowers and plants: carnations and chrysanthemums.

Other materials: copper, steel, iron, PVC-polyester and nylon.

Music: Santaka.

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Duramen

HARRIET PARRY

The image of the cross section of a trunk reveals a landscape of concentric
circles that the British artist has represented with a careful selection of
flowers, accompanied by a particular soundscape composed of several
sections and mixed sounds, collected in the grounds of the Mosque-
Cathedral of Cordoba. Just as the heartwood "tells" the story of the tree, the
Mosque-Cathedral is the most beautiful and representative story of the
history of the city, the heartwood of Cordoba.
This installation is also an ode to connectivity: trees and plants create
subway communication networks to survive, as could well happen between
the floral installation and the surrounding orange trees.
The connections between flowers, sound and space multiply. Thus, the
music of the Cordoba Cathedral Choir brings imitative polyphony, in which a
main note passes through different voices, highlighting the parallels
between the communication of trees and our human societies. While the
soothing sound of water represents the cycle of life, a backdrop of subtle
electronic pulsations brings to mind both the rhythmic beating of a heart
and the synapses of the human brain and the subway networks of trees… A

fusion that further intertwines the messages conveyed by Heartwood:
connectivity, responsiveness, protection, support and wisdom.

“Trees connect and communicate, respond, protect and help each other, passing on knowledge to their descendants from generation to generation, adapting and surviving in our changing world.”

(Harriet Parry)

 

MEZQUITA-CATEDRAL
CALLE CARDENAL HERRERO, 1 – CÓRDOBA

FROM 20 TO 25 OCTOBER 2023
FROM 11.00 AM TO 8.00 PM

(Opening on the 20th at 15h)

Flowers and plants: Achilea, carnation, crasspedia, chrysatemum, Helichrysum, lily and immortelle.

Other materials: copper, steel, iron, PVC-polyester and nylon.

Music: Charlie Carroll. Acknowledgements: Cordoba Cathedral Choir and Clemente Mata.

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Mobilis in mobili

FLOWERS BY BORNAY

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)

DIPUTACIÓN DE CÓRDOBA
PLAZA DE COLÓN, 15 – CÓRDOBA

FROM 20 TO 25 OCTOBER 2023
FROM 11.00 AM TO 8.00 PM

(Opening on the 20th at 15h)

Flowers and plants: Tillandsia usneoides.

Other materials: steel, iron, pine wood, rubber, nylon and plastic paint.

Music: Joël Fajerman.

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Cell

FLOWGARDENZ

In a game of scales that puts humans in the background and nature in the foreground, Flowgardenz invites us to immerse ourselves in the interior of a plant cell to provoke a feeling of insignificance in the face of the grandeur of this microscopic reality. Don’t be fooled by the beauty of chloroplasts or mitochondria: the artists don’t want to explore plants here as beautiful objects, but as incredible life forms with unique mechanisms of survival and communication.

The installation does not hide its structure, designed to be an integral part of the work, reflecting the continuous and dynamic process that occurs within a living cell: scaffolding in plain sight, water test tubes as a metaphor for the sophisticated circulatory system of plants, metal mesh reminiscent of the reticular structure of cells… The industrial aesthetic complements the organic beauty of the flowers, a juxtaposition that highlights the symbiotic relationship between nature and human intervention.

“By creating a large-scale plant cell with carefully selected flowers we symbolise the intricate and often enigmatic intelligence that resides within these seemingly simple organisms.”

(Flowgardenz)

PALACIO DE ORIVE
PLAZA DE ORIVE, 2 – CÓRDOBA

FROM 20 TO 25 OCTOBER 2023

FROM 11.00 AM TO 8.00 PM

(Opening on the 20th at 15h)

Flowers and plants: bamboo (leaves), celosia, carnation, crasspedia, chrysanthemum, Erygium, lotus flower, kuwa, duckweed, moss and immortelle.

Other materials: steel, iron, nylon and spray paint.

Music: Grigorii Rakhmilovich (dj onebeer).

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Artificial defence mechanism

HA I I HWA

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)

PALACIO DE VIANA
PLAZA DE DON GOME, 2 – CÓRDOBA

FROM 20 TO 25 OCTOBER 2023
FROM 11.00 AM TO 8.00 PM

(Opening on the 20th at 15h)

Flowers and plants: Asparagus plumosa, aspidistra, brunia, carnation, Cordyline Black Tie, crasspedia, chrysanthemum, broad-leaved cattail, asparagus, eucalyptus, grass, bear grass, sedge, kale, laburnum, mastic, Lucadendron, pearl millet, paniculata, Phormium tenax, protea, ruscus, Scouringrush Horsetail, immortelle, stipa and Tree Fern.

Other materials: iron, steel and nylon.

Music: Lyra Geomungojari.

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