Turning Point
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Flowers of Fire
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£33.75
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£45.00
Flowers of Fire is a poetic and experimental collaboration between artist Anaïs Tondeur and philosopher Michael Marder, created during a residency in Naples in dialogue with scientists and the inhabitants of the Terra dei Fuochi. The project intertwines photography, ecology, and philosophy to address a landscape marked by pollution and environmental trauma. Using an innovative technique of phytography, Tondeur lets plants imprint their own presence onto photosensitive paper and textiles recovered from landfills—images born from sunlight, soil, and vegetal touch. Marder responds with letters addressed to the plants, read aloud by the artist in a ritual of correspondence and care. Together, their dialogue gives form to an ethics of listening and reciprocity between human and vegetal life. Both artwork and ecological meditation, Flowers of Fire invites us to imagine new bonds of responsibility with the living world.
