De Rerum Natura
2025Is there a boundary between the environment we create and the one shaped by nature beyond us? Are we part of everything else, woven into the fabric of nature, or something separate and distinct?
De Rerum Natura – Latin for “The Nature of Things” or “The Things of Nature” – arises from these questions. Focusing on the silent dialogue between living beings and inanimate matter, this intuitively composed body of work explores the shifting boundaries between what we call natural and artificial, reconsidering humanity’s place within this continuum.
The project adopts a materialist vision of the world, in which human beings are not exceptions to nature but expressions of it – a collectively interpretable, thinking phenomenon. From this perspective, there is only one environment: a unified whole in which everything, including ourselves and our creations, emerges as a natural consequence.
The series presents a collection of traces – a visual meditation on the Anthropocene and Technocene eras – casting new light on the idea of “human nature” and on what it means to be human in a time when nature and artifice are inseparably intertwined. Its ternary structure pays tribute to Michelangelo Pistoletto’s concept of the Third Paradise, envisioning a harmonious fusion of natural and artificial realms. Through three chapters, the work explores nature, artifice, and the symbolic and material dimensions of their entanglement.
For the installation, the photographs were printed on recycled semi-wooden paper and mounted in self-welded metal frames.
The project was also presented in book form, printed on the same recycled paper. The 192-page handmade book contains all 142 images from the series.
In addition, analog silver prints were produced on self-grown mushroom plates, using a geometric image from the series. The photosensitive emulsion was applied directly to the surface of the stabilized mycelium-based biocomposite.
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De Rerum Natura – Latin for “The Nature of Things” or “The Things of Nature” – arises from these questions. Focusing on the silent dialogue between living beings and inanimate matter, this intuitively composed body of work explores the shifting boundaries between what we call natural and artificial, reconsidering humanity’s place within this continuum.
The project adopts a materialist vision of the world, in which human beings are not exceptions to nature but expressions of it – a collectively interpretable, thinking phenomenon. From this perspective, there is only one environment: a unified whole in which everything, including ourselves and our creations, emerges as a natural consequence.
The series presents a collection of traces – a visual meditation on the Anthropocene and Technocene eras – casting new light on the idea of “human nature” and on what it means to be human in a time when nature and artifice are inseparably intertwined. Its ternary structure pays tribute to Michelangelo Pistoletto’s concept of the Third Paradise, envisioning a harmonious fusion of natural and artificial realms. Through three chapters, the work explores nature, artifice, and the symbolic and material dimensions of their entanglement.
For the installation, the photographs were printed on recycled semi-wooden paper and mounted in self-welded metal frames.
installation views:
The project was also presented in book form, printed on the same recycled paper. The 192-page handmade book contains all 142 images from the series.
In addition, analog silver prints were produced on self-grown mushroom plates, using a geometric image from the series. The photosensitive emulsion was applied directly to the surface of the stabilized mycelium-based biocomposite.
installation views: