Phantom (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name), 2014–2015 (right)

Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, Unity 3D forest scan, motion capture technology, custom ceiling grid

The work is a virtual environment that can be experienced as immersive 3D landscape. A towering tree dominates the captured location. Its outline and the rainforest’s densely leafed underbrush, delicate foliage and branches, as well as its floor covered with leaves and ferns are delineated by small white dots.

Spiral Forest (1-11), 2015 (detail; wall)

6 Fiber-based gelatin silver prints, 5 analog C-prints

This body of work draws on the notion of Amerindian Perspectivism, a term developed by the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro to describe indigenous cosmologies that assume the world to be inhabited by different beings, animal and human animal, who perceive reality from distinct points of view of which none is privileged.

Photo © Andrea Rossetti