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GABRIELLE ZEMAITYTE-TRAVIS

Project-based Artist

SLUT PLANT SERIES

These series of work are a culmination of three year close observation of Kalanchoe Daigremontiana (Mother of Thousands), which, in Lithuanian, is also commonly called the ‘Slut Plant’.

Each image shows different stages of the plant – how it behaves and looks like following specific conditions of its growth cycle and how they respond to intervention. This project looks into the personification and connotation of meaning, especially gendered implications, attached to language.

Gabrielle Zemaityte-Travis is a Southeast London-based artist working primarily in moving image, photography and video. Her practice is centred around the anthropomorphism of non-human entities, objects and technologies (i.e. how nature is portrayed in mythology or AI is discussed in contemporary press) and how ways of relating expose existential human anxieties.

The Kalanchoe Daigremontiana plant reproduces by shedding plant ‘babies’ from its ornately patterned leaves. Each baby has a pre-existing root, which locks into the soil upon landing. Because of this, the plant is constantly generating multiple offspring. As an interactive element to the exhibition, the Kabinett will be offering one hundred biodegradable plant pots, each with a slut plant baby, which viewers are invited to take home with them. The plants will be available for collection inside the Kabinett.