One Flower, One Leaf: Martina della Valle's Participatory Urban Flora Archive
Martina della Valle, a young Italian photographer based in Berlin, has initiated 'One Flower, One Leaf', an ongoing participatory archive of still lifes. The project involves workshops in various cities where participants collect spontaneous vegetation from marginal urban areas, then arrange and photograph them inspired by Ikebana principles. Each session creates a specific portrait of the local environment and season, highlighting the diversity of ruderal plants and reconstructing the vegetative landscape's proliferation paths.
Key facts
- Project is called 'One Flower, One Leaf'
- It is an archive in progress of still lifes
- Images result from participatory events held in different cities
- Focus is on studying ruderal green and spontaneous plant diversity in undervalued urban areas
- Comparison of results highlights seasonal and location-specific differences
- Helps reconstruct the plant landscape and its proliferation routes
- Project was conceived by artist Martina della Valle
- Martina della Valle is a young Italian photographer residing in Berlin
- Participants use local spontaneous vegetation and principles of Ikebana
- Workshops begin with a walk in a chosen marginal urban area to collect fragments
Entities
Artists
- Martina della Valle
Institutions
- Artribune
Locations
- Berlin
- Germany
- Italy