Routes is an on-going installation project on the plants humans ingest the most. The first installation was created at the RU/Koda House 404 on Governors Island as a part of the “Encounters” solo exhibition. It was composed of videos of wheat roots vibrating in water among workers on a wheatgrass root fabric.
Vibrations is a video installation on monitors presented at the CICA Museum, Westbeth & Residency Unlimited galleries that won the best cinematography award at the UNFIX Festival in 2023. It shows the vibrations of roots in water surrounded by classical music, developing abstract lines and pictures that will be also used for ballet scenography.
Roon’s rhizomes is an installation presented at Cinema Supply Gallery in Chelsea in 2022, curated by Vanessa Selk. Rhizomes are underground plant stems that grow horizontally, capable of nourishing other plants when they are about to die, contrary to roots that grow vertically. Their complex connecting life system inspired French philosophers Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) to imagine a model of Western society based on horizontal networks, growing from a small seed into a larger form of arborescence. Similarly, Martinican author, poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant (1928-2011) used the rhizome metaphor to propose a radically new approach to what identity is: we are not defined by our roots or where we are from, but by the encounters we make and connect to through time and space throughout our lives.
Planthropos is a live video installation presented at the LMCC Art Center on Governors Island and the UNFIX Eco Festival in 2021. It shows the live vibrations of bamboo roots living hydroponically in hand-made reused plexiglass vases structures. It was inspired by canadian anthropologist and scientist Natasha Myers.