Aloe vera plants generate energy from sunlight and store large quantities of water in their leaves, the sap of which is sold as beneficial for both the inside and outside of the human body.
The Antropea Vera AR installation invites you to become a human-aloe vera symbiont. By combining micro and macro dimensions, the viewer can imagine being a hybrid being that carries both human and aloe vera genes and characteristics. This speculation shares a world with The Camille Stories from Donna Haraway’s book Staying with the Trouble. Haraway envisions a future society in which some people integrate genes from another species into their child’s DNA. From then on, the new, more-than-human being feels a special physical and mental connection to that species. Haraway calls this connection a “symbiont”. The filter projects a digitally altered video of microscopic aloe vera tissue onto the subject’s face. They become part of a circle of aloe vera plants and can dream of a future that is monstrous in the most beautiful sense.
Shown at the art KARLSRUHE 2024.