Institute for Inconspicuous Languages: Reading Lips Špela Petrič
Institute for Inconspicuous Languages: Reading Lips, 2018 Foto: Anže Sekelj
With Institute for Inconspicuous Languages: Reading Lips, Špela Petrič stages an experiment. Like all plants, a Ficus benjamina controls its energy balance by opening and closing the pores on its leaves. Each leaf has thousands of these openings called stomata. The idea behind this is to read the movements of these greatly enlarged stomata like lips, to articulate the need for more or less water.
This speculative experiment plays humorously with our anthropocentric view of the world, which imposes our language and thus our will on all living beings.
