The Way of Flowers
(2023) & (2025-)
04 SEPT 2025 -17 OCT 2025
SOLO EXHIBITION
OFFICE IMPART
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13 SEPT 2024 -12 JAN 2025
EXHIBITION
9 UV prints on aluminium, 60x60cm, 2+2AP, 2024
UMWELT
Group show at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive
Curated by: Marco Mancuso
with: Forensic Architecture, Semiconductor, James Bridle, CROSSLUCID, Anna Ridler, Entangled Others, Robertina Šebjanič/Sofia Crespo/Feileacan McCormick, Eryk Salvaggio
The exhibition is topped by a catalogue with texts by Marco Mancuso along with Daphne Dragona, K Allado-McDowell and Laura Tripaldi.
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17 - 19 JAN 2025
Art Singapore, Office Impart
with Jonas Lund and Jan Robert Leegte
by Chen Qiufan
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Chen Qiufan (a.k.a. Stanley Chan) is an award-winning Chinese speculative fiction author, translator, curator and futurist. He is now an assistant professor at the School of Art & Social Sciences of Hong Kong Metropolitan University. He focuses on issues of climate change and the environment, artificial and natural intelligence and cybernetic society, and reflecting on how to incorporate ancient Chinese philosophies into the narrative framework for constructing a future symbiotic society. His works include the debut novel Waste Tide and AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (co-authored with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee).
Exhibition text, Offoce Impart, 2025
PR Text
“The Way of Flowers”, a new project by the artist collective CROSSLUCID, offers a fundamental reinterpretation of environmental art by creating a living connection between generative hybrid plant-beings and real-world ecosystem regeneration projects. These digital organisms reflect the participants’ ongoing ecological engagement and coalesce into a collective memory of ecological transformation.
The project begins with three to five initial collectors or supporters who become “Seeders” by acquiring digital seeds registered on the blockchain. These seeds are then collectively nurtured by a wide-reaching network of communities across different contexts. By purchasing a snapshot of a hybrid plant-being, participants not only contribute to verified biodiversity initiatives – the digital plant itself also responds to the interaction, transforming and integrating visual traits from the supported project into its evolving morphology. The result is a unique, ever-growing artwork: a digital permaculture garden sustained by ecological care and shaped by collective participation.
Each act of support funds ecosystem regeneration while simultaneously triggering morphological transformations within the digital botanical system. These changes are powered by an advanced bespoke artificial intelligence – the Morphological Art Engine – which translates ecological contribution into visual metamorphosis and network-wide evolution.
This technological approach resonates with the ideas of philosopher Michael Marder, whose work in phenomenology, environmental, and political philosophy explores the concept of extended cognition in plants. According to this theory, information processing in plants is not limited to physical bodies but emerges through chemical and biological interactions with their surroundings. The Way of Flowers transposes this idea into a digital context, creating a reciprocal relationship between human ecological action and vegetal response. Through this, art becomes a medium in which vegetal temporality and spatiality can be newly experienced. Root structures shift, branching patterns emerge, and coloration evolves—based on authentic conservation data—forming a visual narrative of collective ecological impact. This living system thus responds to ecological engagement, transforming digital aesthetics into visible markers of real-world regeneration.
Moreover, it traces both imaginative and possible co-evolutions between different plant species and their biomorphological features.
The supported real-world ecological impact projects are verified through partnerships with organizations such as Regen Network and project selection is curated by ArtEcology, a global regenerative design studio. They include projects focused on biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, and ecosystem restoration, spanning six global bioregions. The Way of Flowers thus operates as a climate-neutral—or even climate-positive—artwork.
The exhibition at OFFICE IMPART transforms the space into a permaculture garden. Visitors can directly experience the digital plant-beings and their visual metamorphosis in real time. Alongside, physical works from the series are installed in dialogue with living plants within the exhibition space.
The Way of Flowers functions as a collective space of knowledge that demonstrates the potential of art as an active tool for ecological engagement. Rather than merely symbolizing nature, the project establishes verifiable links between art and environmental stewardship. The meaning of each work arises not only from its visual form, but from its authentically embedded narrative of ecological action—reaching beyond the institutional boundaries of art itself.
The Way Of Flowers, 2023, OG
Art Singapore, Office Impart, 2025, ©Studio Abbruzzese