Catherine Biocca : bonsai feeling

Under the title BONSAI FEELING, Catherine Biocca presented at the Kunstverein Nürnberg new and existing works that examine the various meta-levels of the human experience of reality. With the term “bonsai”, Biocca makes reference to a piece of artificial nature that is shaped through acts of intervention into the miniaturized, ideal form of a tree. The cultivation of the bonsai plant does not follow a natural, organic growth pattern, but instead takes as its template the representation of trees from traditional Japanese and Chinese art. In her exhibition, Biocca links this production of high artificiality and control with current perceptions of human communication, in which reality, given digital progress and the development of media, is often indistinguishable from the “fake”, from provocation and speculation.