December 2024 Newsletter: Vital Signs: Another World is Possible Exhibition at Science Gallery Part 2

Mary Zagoritou Gallery visited VITAL SIGNS: another world is possible at Science Gallery London and shot exclusive photos of this season environmental exhibition to present to our audience. 

In December's 2024 Newsletter, Mary Zagoritou Gallery presents the immersive part of the exhibition, named Night Bloom. The icons immersing in this room are storytelling about symbiosis from an inclusion angle.

As we have already indicated in Part 1, the exhibition is attempting to give insights to a number of vital environmental questions such as:

What do you consider to be vital to your survival? The air you breathe? The water you drink? The earth that feeds you?

The health of our planet is essential for the survival of all living things, including you. To thrive, we need to build stronger alliances with each other, and with all other species.

Science Gallery London’s new exhibition, Vital Signs: Another world is possible brings together artists, designers and researchers to explore these relationships and how the health of the natural world - from our waterways to our atmosphere and the ocean floor - is intimately connected to our own health and wellbeing.

Revealing unique perspectives on our surrounding environments through creative, sensory works and multiple voices, this exhibition reinforces symbiosis, in other words, the fact that humans are fundamentally a part of nature rather than apart from it.

Vital Signs shares the ways people are shaping liveable and hopeful futures, here in London and around the world.  It confronts environmental injustices and asks us to consider: what changes could we make if we understand that the planet’s health is an extension of our own?

Night Bloom is an immersive audio-visual artwork that highlights the resilience of the global deaf community through the metaphor of biodiversity. While storms and wilting flowers reflect the systematic discrimination and erasure faced by deaf people around the world, abundant landscapes filled with birds and insects offer a symbol of hope and future growth for all.

A looped film features three dancers, whose movements incorporate signs drawn from Visual Vernacular and traditional Chinese (CSL) sign languages. Signs drawn from nature are commonplace across international sign languages. The roots shooting from the hands of dancers represent the mycorrhizal networks through which plants and fungi communicate across species. A mycorrhizal is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant, deriving from the Greek words μύκητας fungus and ρίζα root. The association is normally mutualistic, the plant makes organic molecules by photosynthesis and supplies them to the fungus in the form of sugars or lipids, while the fungus supplies the plant with water and minerals such as phosphorus from the soil.

VITAL SIGNS: another world is possible exhibition is open from Wednesday 13 November 2024 at 11:00 am to Saturday 17 May 2025 at 18:00pm on the first floor at the Science Gallery London, Great Maze Pond, London, England, SE1.Science Gallery is very conveniently placed inside King's College London Guys Campus, opposite London Bridge British Rail Entrance. There is a hospitable café on the ground floor to enjoy open till 5 pm.

Vital Signs: Another world is possible shares the power of embodied forms of communication, across difference, and advocates for an inclusive climate transition.

Written by Mary Zagoritou. 16/1/2025