

Adrien Missika
This series of anthropomorphic plants subverts the cultural hegemony of the human gaze. Is it only when natural patterns
rehearse human conditions that one can relate to them? In this
series, the artist encounters creatures that ‘speak to us’ in a
non-verbal expression, plants whose shape is so striking that
one cannot help but surrender to them and listen.
However, they are plants, and this automatically dissolves human attributes, and, as such, gender qualities. Where one might
see Diana as a woman sitting on a curb, others might perceive
a man with wild hair. The poly-gendered carrots, unwilling to
die alone, unite beyond binary identities. In this game of projection, it is the viewer who imprints their reading. Thus, the
dialogue becomes active; the plants question our subjective
gaze, yet they remain independent from our (mis)conceptions.