Installation with prints, photographs, found objects, plaster sculptures, minerals, sound, and video projection

Dimensions variable (approx. 150 × 200 cm wall panel with extended floor setting)

G.R.O.T.T.O. consists of a vertical wooden structure carrying prints and photographs, combined with objects and sculptural elements arranged on a wooden bench and the surrounding floor. The work incorporates found materials collected from nearby wastelands, natural minerals, and artificial rock formations made from colored plaster. A video projection of flowing water overlays key parts of the arrangement and sound elements with white, brown and pink noise simulate an auditory grotto-like environment.

The installation constructs an interior grotto as an artificial threshold space where nature and culture overlap. Drawing on Helmuth Plessner’s observation that humans are ‚by nature artificial,‘ the work engages with how we access nature only through cultural mediation and technological framing.

Like Renaissance grottos that functioned as portals between worlds, this project stages a contemporary „artificial grotto“: a deliberately constructed environment where the distinction between natural and cultural, organic and technological, becomes unstable. In the context of accelerating technological change the work asks how artistic practice might create the kind of threshold spaces we need to reimagine our relationship to the world.