FLUORESCER
by Florencia Cesari Tommarello and Heidi Jalkh
Florencia Cesari Tommarello
Interdidact fungi grower, Immersed in the fungi kingdom for 8 years. She currently works in consulting and production, using conventional and modern farming techniques. In her trajectory, she ventured into photography, pottery and the study of symbolic languages. Her objective is to improve the possibilities of cultivation in Argentina, to spread the beauty, knowledge, and the potential of fungi as functional food and biomaterials and as a means for bioremediation.
Heidi Jalkh
Experimental designer, trained in industrial design. She is a specialist in Logic and Form Technique and has a master's degree in HU / UBA interdisciplinary research. She is a design teacher and director of the Material Systems research group. Parallel to these academic activities, she continues to develop her professional practice as a designer. Her work lies at the intersection of craft, design, and manufacturing of biomaterials, bioinspired active materials. Biofellow 2.0
Fluorescer is a journey towards invisible realities.
This installation accounts for the colors and shapes that the Ganoderma multipileum fungus generates when it is stimulated with ultraviolet light and excess CO2.
Fungi are living organisms and in constant movement; humans, to cultivate them, we create environments that simulate the habitat in which they grow.
When we investigate them, we begin to realize the invisible world that surrounds us. During this exploration we observe their characteristics, colors and shapes, which the human eye can only appreciate with the help of additional tools.
We contemplate the growth of a living sculpture with the ability to fluorescer.
Collaborators: Nick Denham (design assistance) / Santiago Clancy (electronics) / Agostina Longo (Voice)
