Jazmin Rojas Forero
Bodies Inside Each Other

Installation
2019 — 2024
Site-specific module of an existing series

Jazmin Rojas Forero is an artist and filmmaker. In her work she combines fiction, science, non-human perspectives and her personal experiences to create sensual and immersive poetic gestures. Through her images and narratives, she intends to rethink and restore our relationship between humans and non-humans, to imagine other forms of perception and to incorporate non-Western knowledge practices.

The installation consists of two parts: Firstly, there is a luminous display showing a photograph of the plant species "great monks" (in Spanish: "frailejones"). This species belongs to the genus Espeletia, which is native to South American tropical-montane ecosystems. The large monks protect themselves from freezing with multiple layers of dead leaves and supply themselves with water from the air through a plant condensation process. The second part of the installation is inspired by this: a glass sculpture filled with ice. The glass sculpture is modelled on the inner structure of a plant. The ice inside creates a cooling surface that allows water to condense from the surrounding air. This allows the unusual strategy of the plant to be understood. Understanding the unusual qualities of natural systems is now part of basic research in the natural sciences, engineering and economics, which learn from nature. Examples include bionics, the circular economy and environmental sciences.