2023

Read more about Pollinator Pathmaker. 

Installation view of the five Pollinator Pantmaker prints in ‘pollinator vision’ at ‘Bending the Curve: Knowing, Acting, Caring for Biodiversity’ at Frankfurter Kunstverein, 13 October 2023 – 03 March 2024.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg was commissioned by Frankfurter Kunstverein to create a new series of work, especially for the exhibition, ‘Bending the Curve: Knowing, Acting, Caring for Biodiversity’. The five large-scale prints depict the different seasons of three unrealised Pollinator Pathmaker living artworks from the perspective of pollinating insects.

Pollinator Pathmaker is Ginsberg’s ongoing artwork in which the artist transforms plots of earth into biodiverse landscapes. She designed and developed an algorithm that creates site-specific planting schemes, that once planted, become living artworks for other species. The algorithm designs planting not for human aesthetics, but on the needs and foraging styles of pollinating insects, including bees, wasps, moths, beetles and butterflies. The selection of plants is based on the specific bioregions where Pollinator Pathmaker ‘Plant Palettes’ have been commissioned so far. These plant lists are researched and curated by the artist, working with horticulturists and pollinator experts.

For ‘Bending the Curve’, the five large-scale prints were generated from unrealised planting schemes, none of which depict the human perspective. Ginsberg digitally paints each plant that appears in her ‘Plant Palettes’, making it possible to visualise each potential living artwork in a virtual space before it is planted. Ginsberg has flown through the digital gardens and chosen the viewpoint of pollinators, from a low flight or ground angle.

Applying Pollinator Pathmaker’s unique ‘Pollinator Vision’ filter, Ginsberg transforms the colours of each flower to infer the different colour perception spectra of different pollinating insect species.

Pollinator Pathmaker: AfvLbwTriWhuR7PDkd77LZ (Pollinator Vision, Late Spring)

Pollinator Pathmaker: ARr77zvQW8Bq8a6hgDHUmp (Pollinator Vision, Late Summer)

Pollinator Pathmaker: AfyLbwTriWhuR7PDkd77LZ (Pollinator Vision, Late Summer)

Pollinator Pathmaker: iFADDiPqc5HU3KiFxjBEuG (Pollinator Vision, Early Summer)

Pollinator Pathmaker: AfvLbwTriWhuR7PDkd77LZ (Pollinator Vision, Midsummer)

Edition of 5
Fine Art Pigment print on Hahnemühle Baryta 315gsm paper
203 x 125 cm.
Accompanied by a signed letter of authenticity from the artist
Price on application

Contact the studio at enquiries@daisyginsberg.com for more details