Herbaria

With Herbaria Leandro Listorti proposes an unprecedented parallel between the botanical herbarium and the film archive, exploring their common roots – the same desire to discover, represent and capture the ephemeral in order to make it last in time. But botanical collections, like cinematographic films, are fragile and subject to similar processes of deterioration. Listorti pays homage to the archive (film and botanical) as an operation of cataloguing the world and recording diversity, representing the tireless and obstinate work of preserving something in constant risk of disappearing.