Weixin Chong — OH! Open House

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND MAN-EATING FLOWERS

This was the third of 4 tours for OH! Emerald Hill (2018). This tour took the form of a choose-your-own-adventure through the themes of botany, science and representation.

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Exponential Taxonomies (2014)

In this series of images, William Farquhar’s natural history drawings were scanned alongside real plants. Two modes of documentation are contrasted – one scientific, the other luxuriant. The scans deliberately include dust particles and rolled-up edges, even cropping out significant parts of the plant. The work challenges our assumptions about the objectivity of scientific observations and points out the limits of representations.

Artist:
Weixin Chong