ABSTRACT
Flora: Exploration to Extinction is an immersive installation that re-evaluates our relationship to the natural world. Anna Laurent is an award-winning flora-focused writer, photographer, and artist. Flora is a site-specific public installation in London’s South Kensington. The silhouettes are highlighted by gilt frames, emphasizing the portrait presentation and nostalgia for the nineteenth-century adoration of flora, as well as honoring threatened species and portraying them as family. In 2018, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew commissioned a series of seed portraits to be permanently displayed alongside living plants in the Temperate House, the largest Victorian glasshouse in the world. She holds a Master of Science in History and Philosophy of Science from University College London.
