Nymphaea-X

Nymphaea-X practices the ability to imagine a future rather than predict it.

Using a fictional scenario that connects pieces of data from the present and a series of questions regarding past and future events, a speculative interpretation comes to place.

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The year is 3020, in an archeological site at the mega-cosmopolitan Tafo a complex of plant-like objects was discovered. Scholars believe that they were formed in the post-Paleodiomic period (pre fluidic.) which began after the global floods of the 1930s and 1940s.

The objects (estimated to be about 1000 years old) made of polyamide, were kept in an unusual condition ,in relation to their age, in light of their resistance to moisture conditions. Researchers speculate that the objects are related to the worship that took place at the site during the Second Temple period in the last millennium and that they are exact replicas of the flowers - Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia reginae), Nymphaea (King of the Blues) and Iris pseudacorus.

What was the function of these objects? For what form of ritual were they used?

Is it possible to see a connection between the first tsunami waves that hit the area in 2031 and the later development of the same vegetation? Can it be assumed that these flowers were part of the beginning of symbiosis with the plant world and the green tiger epidemic?

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2020
Commissioned by: XYZT exhibition,  Benyamini Center for Contemporary Ceramic, Israel
Collaborators: Computational Archaeological Laboratory, Archaeology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.