Nona Inescu’s Aristolochia (2021/2024) is a large-format framed photograph, which, as the other photographs part of the series, explore the controversial relationship between humans and the ecosystem. With its remarkably otherworldly form, the flower is a reminder of nature’s endless capabilities. In this image, the Aristolochia flower – commonly “Dutchman's pipe” – is enveloping a human hand, creating a continuum that goes from the arm to the flower’s stem, a new hybrid species between human and plant.

The work’s anti-anthropocentric depiction of the human-nonhuman interplay is rooted in Inescu’s interest in post-human theory, which proposes a multispecies entanglement worldview, in which the traditional hierarchical organisation of the species with humans at the top is challenged. The exhibition Daisyworld finds inspiration in the Gaia hypothesis and Lovelock and Watson's model of a self-regulating planet. The act of touching suggests both a form of mutual exchange and intrusion, emphasising human’s problematic interactions with the natural world.