Plantation
2021
archive images printed into a4-papers, cardboard and monitor

Link to monitor’s display:
https://vimeo.com/669077907/9fdc03929c


The work is an sincere effort to gain knowledge that is inherited from the phenomenon described below. Cultivation and transportation abroad from tropical and subtropical areas seem to alter the meaning of the fruit or botanically defined flower, as it travels in between different locations.

The monocultural cultivation method impairs the genetic diversity of the plant being cultivated. This cultivation method can undoubtedly be proven unsustainable. Plantations of Gros Michel bananas, which was the most cultivated banana species in the world until the 1950s. At that time the oxysporum pathogen of the fungal species Fusarium Wilt or Panama’s disease, infected, and spread easily within the Gros Michel crops. To such an extent that the event is ominously referred to: “The Devastation of Gros Michel.” At that time, a banana belonging to the Cavendish species had almost the same practical requirements. And therefore, it was suitable for mass-scale cultivation. Its thick shell ensured life during importation, and, above all, it possessed resistance to the latest variant of Panama’s disease. Evidence of the TR4 variant of Panama’s disease, shaped by the interaction of the Cavendish species, has been observed in Taiwan since 1989. The oxysporum pathogen Fusarium Wilt has learned to develop a way to circumvent the organism that originally had resistance to that fungal organism. And it’s therefore currently going through a large-scale extinction because of Panama’s disease.