Herbarium - 1967

Herbarium — 1967 is a photographic exploration of a botanical archive assembled for a university exam. Pressed plants, fragile papers and handwritten notes reveal the quiet material traces through which knowledge, memory and time are preserved.

Herbarium — 1967

Herbarium — 1967 is a photographic exploration of a botanical archive assembled in 1967 for a university botany examination. The herbarium, preserved within the artist’s family archive, contains pressed plants carefully mounted on paper sheets and accompanied by handwritten notes.

Rather than documenting the botanical specimens themselves, the photographs focus on the material presence of the archive: aging paper, translucent protective tissues, annotations and the subtle alterations produced by time.

Within these pages, plants appear suspended between scientific classification and personal memory. Each specimen becomes both a botanical record and a trace of a past gesture — the moment when a plant was gathered, named and preserved.

Through a restrained and frontal visual approach, Herbarium reflects on the fragile boundary between knowledge, memory and material preservation.