Flora Incognita

"Flora Incognita"

from Saturday, January 31, 2026 to Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Galerie XII LA

The Flora incognita project anticipates a version of our botanical heritage on planets
beyond the solar system. At the intersection of art and science, this speculative herbarium
envisions plant life forms capable of adapting to extraterrestrial ecosystems.
Just like on Earth—where remarkably singular life forms emerge in the harshest environments—the more constrained an ecosystem, the greater the diversity it seems to generate.
To survive, plants must develop new strategies and invent novel architectures. Every
form is the outcome of a constellation of forces. In this dialogue between Earth’s flora and
its speculative extraterrestrial counterparts, one can hear the distant echo of the climate
challenges facing our planet.
Presented as a series of encyclopedic plates, this reinvention of the living world is built
through a hybrid technique combining photogrammetry and 3D animation. These tools
allow for the modeling of plants with unprecedented photographic precision, and the
simulation of their growth patterns within constrained environments.