2004, BIOPHILIA, 2`18`` — BERGAMOT GROUP

BERGAMOT GROUP

BIOPHILIA

Video
2004
2`18``

The man violently shakes the tree. At first glance, it appears to be a destructive gesture. But it can be interpreted not only as an expression of hostility or violence, but also as a desperate attempt to establish contact. It is a mix of passion, aggression, and helplessness — a state in which communion with a natural spirit is possible only through ecstatic upheaval.

The cycle is called Biophilia — a love for life, for all that is living. But here, love is shown in its most extreme form: not as peaceful contemplation, but as a physical, irrational yearning to dissolve into the other. The man quite literally enters into resonance with the tree — both lose their stability, boundaries, and autonomy. This resonates with posthumanist ideas, where the subject ceases to be a closed, self-contained entity and instead exists within a field of interdependent and fluid relations.

It is a gesture charged with tension — between intimacy and destruction, control and surrender, nature and culture.