What kind of knowledge emerges when two bodies cannot touch?
This story traces an impossible relation between a human body and a plant that reject each other.

Through performance, blood, agriculture, and desire, it follows the tensions that arise when intimacy begins in hostility. Living with a rare and severe allergy, artist Margherita Soldati turns her own body into a site of artistic research. Moving through greenhouses, clinics, and galleries, she approaches the organisms that threaten her, tracing the strange intimacy between rejection and attraction. Blood, ecology, and desire intertwine as the work unfolds across agricultural landscapes and the systems that govern how bodies and plants are allowed to coexist.

Master Thesis of the Artistic Research Master Programme at Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag, the Netherlands 2024 – 2026

Designed by Dee Vasilevskaia
Published by Terry Bleu
Photography by Anne Lakeman

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