HYBRID HERBARIUM

​

6.4.-31.5.2024

​

Riogordo Ethnographic Museum,

Riogordo, Malaga, Spain

The artist employs photography, moving images, and natural materials as tools in her work, constructing installations from them.

Her work with nature began in 2014 using a method where she pressed parts of plants and animals onto porous thick paper using a printmaking press. She refers to these works as plant and animal imprints. Through these imprints, she mimics the structure and form of fossils, thereby referencing their temporal dimension.

The initial concern was the disappearance of plant species. The artistic aim of the project was to leave a memory of plants for future generations, a fossil-like imprint.

Moving from plants, the artist began creating imaginative plant and animal hybrids. The idea behind these hybrids was that the plant and animal kingdoms would struggle for living space and develop various means to survive in changing climate conditions.

Lindström's Hybrid Herbarium is part of the "Natural Art Collection" series. The collection is a humorous exploration of what might happen and what forms of life evolution could produce if the divergent branches of the living world were to merge again. It illustrates what new and unfamiliar species could emerge as living conditions and the environment change.

​

The objects on display in the exhibition have been gathered from the rich natural surroundings of the small village of Riogordo. Riogordo is located in the province of Malaga, Spain.

​

Many may consider these dried specimens collected from nature insignificant, but the artist has seen these previously unknown materials as treasures and has created various creatures from them in her hybrid herbarium.

​

Photography serves as a means for the artist to capture and reveal valuable details of nature that may not necessarily receive attention.