As part of the FUTURES x MPB Residency program, Olena Morozova will spend the month of September in Amsterdam, developing their project The Roots Are Breathing.
“The Roots Are Breathing is an installation assembled from natural materials found on site: twigs, bark, leaves, dry plants, earth, stone, moss. Complemented by clay moulds and simple drawings on paper or cardboard, it forms a fragile, poetic composition spread out on the floor, a wooden surface or in a corner of the hall - as if nature itself had quietly come inside to remind us of itself.”
The installation does not tell a story - it invites us to stop, to slow down, to tune in to sensory perception - a space in which you can simply be. There is no plastic or new production - just the breath of the material, its tactility, its localness. As a possible addition, the installation can include small manifestos on behalf of natural objects - a stone, a branch, a root. These messages, written on paper or cardboard with natural pigments (ochre, earth, soot, plant infusion), can become a quiet voice within the installation, a voice that is not loud but deep.
The installation consists entirely of what already exists around us. In this way, the work conceptualises the need to re-evaluate the human relationship to the world around us - from consumption to listening, from control to ownership.
The Roots Are Breathing is an invitation to slow down and gently engage. It is not an object but a process, not a message but a pause. It is easily adaptable to the materials already available in residency and can be realised without transport (or with partial transport of drawings, clay elements) and waste. The way it is created is part of a statement: modest, sustainable, alive.
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