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Liana de la Vida [Vine of Life]
(2025)

Castelblanco, Felipe (Director)

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This photographic series reveals the nocturnal life of plants, capturing subtle interspecies interactions through full-spectrum photography and UV fluorescence. Produced in 2022 along the Tambopata River in Peru’s Madre de Dios region, and in 2024 in the Colombian Putumayo. The series explores how plants sense, signal, and shape their environments at night. In landscapes affected by mining and deforestation, medicinal plants like Brugmansia re-emerge as plant teachers, offering insights into ecological intelligence, plant-led remediation, and new forms of worlding rooted in mutual care and resilience.

Acknowledgements:

Additional Support from Prohelvetia Southamerica

Amazon Aid Foundation,

Studio Verde AIR

ACEER Founddation and Camino Verde. Madre de Dios, Perú.

Equipment specifications: Mounted directly on the wall.

Technical info:

Installation, tree Trunk and Framed Picture (inkjet Print on Archival Paper) 70 cm x 100 cm. Induced Fluorescence and Multispectral Photography.

Institutional credits:

A work Felipe Castelblanco, realized in the framework of the research project Plants_ Intelligence. Learning like a Plant (2022 - 2025). A research project by Yvonne Volkart, Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch and Rasa Smite. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.

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handle:	20.500.11806/med/4bzz-r7kb-h3
DateAdded:	2026-02-02T08:51:05Z
DateModified:	2026-03-02T09:32:56Z
SeriesTitle:	Neither Green Nor Planted
Key:	3IPNEX3K
Rights:	This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Liana de la Vida [Vine of Life] (2025)

Liana de la Vida [Vine of Life]
(2025)