One Thousand Flowers from a Test Tube
Evolving installation with Eva Sajovic
at 198 Arts & Learning, London, 2015
Silva and Sajovic brought The Red Jan Line – descendants of Corinne’s grandmother Janet’s geraniums – into contact with one thousand plug plant geraniums bought from a wholesaler in the Netherlands. These plants (in diminished numbers) were then included in the installation Five Hundred Flowers and the Mother Plant at UAL’s London College of Communication before being absorbed into the Grow Elephant Community Garden (now closed). The loss of the plants is recorded in Counting performance for video.
The installation was shown as part of In/Visible Cities, with Keith Piper, Dubmorphology, Ines Von Bonhorst, Yuri Pirondi and Fatima Bianchi, 13 November - 19 December 2015 then as a duo show at the Lower gallery, LCC, University of the Arts London, 5 February to 26 February 2016.