Marta Ferracin

In Flux_Unearthed Ferracin collaborates with naturally occurring and hybridized materiality to enhance ecological connectivity and biodiversity awareness. 

The overall artwork evidences the flows of living matter over a two-year period, growing onto four man-made waterproof polyester canvases left in the wild, an intimate exchange between the artist’s experimental process and its organic material agency. Ferracin first seeks permission from the bush as a respectful ritual then let time to slow down the process and allow the weather exposure, the passage of animals, insects and organic matter to do the rest. The result is an alchemic and fertile substrate of marks, imprints, multi strata of dust and leaves, organic matter, decolouration, mushroom mycelium and roots which reveal the invisible and restless adaptation to the change by the local biodiversity and its ecosystem.

In Flux_Unearthed, the four canvases’ extraction testimonial videos and the native habitat’s recorded sound combined with the artist- improvised chanting and biodiversity intervention, immerse the participants into a rhythmic sequence of intimate and interconnected cycle-time experiences. They represent the apex that marks the end of the overall experimental process and the beginning of a renewed attitude mindful of the native habitat’s agency and its delicate equilibrium.