Vernissage Archivum Naturae

Karne Kunst gUG presents Archivum Naturae, a collective exhibition featuring works by Ana Palacio and Andrea Nosetti.
Through photography, installation, and sculptural processes, the exhibition reflects on the transformation of living organisms into archives, images, fragments, and reproducible structures.
In Archivum Naturae, nature no longer appears as an untouched landscape or a distant space for contemplation, but as a territory shaped by displacement, technological mediation, extraction, and survival. Birds from the south of Latin America and digitally reproduced insects become traces of ecosystems under tension, suspended between preservation and disappearance.
The exhibition unfolds through two distinct yet deeply connected artistic approaches.
In her series YAJNA, Ana Palacio works with images of birds whose habitats have been altered by human intervention. The works adopt the appearance of documents or scientific records, while questioning the implicit violence involved in acts of observing, classifying, and possessing. Drawing from concepts connected to Indigenous American worldviews, the series reflects on coexistence, ecological imbalance, and the fragile relationship between living beings and their environments.
Andrea Nosetti, in turn, takes a digital archive acquired online as the starting point for an installation based on 3D prints. Through fragmentation, repetition, and shifts in scale, the body of an insect progressively loses its biological integrity and becomes an abstract sculptural structure. Oscillating between fossil, artefact, and digital replica, the works explore how contemporary technologies transform the organic into infinitely reproducible matter.
Presented at Bardo Projektraum, Archivum Naturae is part of a series of projects investigating material memory, ecological transformation, and the unstable boundaries between nature and artifice.
Rather than offering a nostalgic image of nature, the exhibition asks an urgent question: what remains when living systems are displaced into archives, databases, representations, and artificial habitats?