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What might a museum reveal if it allowed visitors to look beneath the surface? What hidden, complex, and vibrant world could appear if the ground were opened to view? "Radix" explores that possibility through an ecological fable that shifts attention to the depths of history, culture, and subterranean memory. Tania Candiani’s project imagines a fictional biome inhabited by entities that move between the scientific and the speculative, the observable and the imagined. It is presented as an immersive installation conceived as a hybrid ecosystem, where living plants, blown-glass sculptures, suspended organisms, a rhizotron for observing root growth, interwoven audiovisual projections, and an octophonic sound composition all share the space. Each element acts as part of a larger interdependent system in which the boundary between the living and the inert begins to dissolve. The exhibition room is also transformed architecturally into a soft radial geometry inspired by a cross-section of a plant structure found in a book from the Botanical Garden of Valencia. Rather than serving only as a container, the space becomes a body in itself, an expanded anatomy suggesting the presence of an imagined plant, a possible form of life that may belong, or may once have belonged, to the Valencian territory, though its origin remains uncertain, suspended between botanical memory and scientific fiction. In this sense, "Radix" does not aim to represent nature as it is known, but to speculate on its possible mutations, micro-worlds, and futures, inviting viewers to reconsider the boundaries between species, disciplines, and states of matter, and to reflect on the invisible forces that sustain life above and below the ground.

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When & where

Date & time
Apr 29–Sep 20 · 8:00 AM–6:00 PM · 3466h
Location
IVAM
Valencia
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Overview

Organizer
Agenda cultural Valencia
Format
Exhibition
Audience
All ages
Event language
Not specified
Attendance
In-person