Exhibition at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art brings together new work groups by artist and photographer Flo Maak
Installation view.
BERLIN
.- The exhibition collected stories brings together new work groups by artist and photographer Flo Maak (born 1980 in Fulda, lives and works in Berlin).
The photographs and installations on display address questions of coexistence on our damaged planet. If at all, humans feature in the background of Maaks works, while the decisive agents of this exhibition are plants, animals and volcanos.
The central installation The Red Green revolves around the global pervasion of the plant Chromolaena odorata, also known as Siam weed. In many countries it is regarded to be an invasive species as is reflected by another of the names it is given, devils weed. In the Southern Indian state of Kerala, on the other, it is known as Communist pacha and associated with the Communist movement. Maak staged his shots of the plant during a stay in Kochi, I