VEGETAL ANIMAL

Contrary to the mental barrier that we place between the animal and plant worlds, the Greeks defined a certain continuity between humans and plants, suggested by a sort of bodily ambiguity, a fascinating interchange of forms and, in short, the close visual and objective of living beings. Researching mythical narrative and philosophy, poetry and sculpture – each with its own strengths and language – we discover that these give voice to trees, putting before our eyes the miraculous and elusive spectacle of an interconnection and affinity between living things which appears to us at once familiar and unthinkable.