PAF: All Flowers was a contemporary art exhibition presented as an extension of Port Art Fair at Sevkabel Port, Saint Petersburg
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MESS {XR Lab}
MESS {XR Lab}
Under the X-ray Roots explores the hidden architecture of human inner life. The work can be experienced in VR, where viewers may adjust the level of transparency, allowing the physical environment to remain visible through the virtual space, or choose to become fully immersed in the digital world.
The project presents a detailed X-ray visualization of a tree, revealing its hidden internal structure. By exposing what normally remains unseen, the work emphasizes the vulnerability and intimacy of the virtual environment, drawing a parallel between the invisible anatomy of nature and the inner architecture of the human psyche. Stripped of its bark and foliage, the tree resembles an exposed neural network, dissolving the boundary between botanical and biological forms.
Entering the immersive landscape created by Tanya Yanni, visitors find themselves not beneath the tree's canopy, but within its root system. Moving through this labyrinth of roots, they gradually discover the stability of the trunk—a metaphor for the process of finding inner support through lived experience.
The image of the tree is central to the work. It reflects the artist's deep connection with the natural world while simultaneously referencing the branching structures of digital data, neural networks, and rhizomatic systems. Under the X-ray Roots explores resilience as a living network of relationships, where nature, technology, and human consciousness become interconnected.
The project presents a detailed X-ray visualization of a tree, revealing its hidden internal structure. By exposing what normally remains unseen, the work emphasizes the vulnerability and intimacy of the virtual environment, drawing a parallel between the invisible anatomy of nature and the inner architecture of the human psyche. Stripped of its bark and foliage, the tree resembles an exposed neural network, dissolving the boundary between botanical and biological forms.
Entering the immersive landscape created by Tanya Yanni, visitors find themselves not beneath the tree's canopy, but within its root system. Moving through this labyrinth of roots, they gradually discover the stability of the trunk—a metaphor for the process of finding inner support through lived experience.
The image of the tree is central to the work. It reflects the artist's deep connection with the natural world while simultaneously referencing the branching structures of digital data, neural networks, and rhizomatic systems. Under the X-ray Roots explores resilience as a living network of relationships, where nature, technology, and human consciousness become interconnected.
Under the X-ray roots