Ghost in the Machine // Installation
Ghost in the Machine
Installation
New Covent Garden Market
Flower Market Facade, London, SW8 5BH
6:00pm – 6:00am
Installation for 6 months
Nearest tube:
18 min walk from Vauxhall Station
Anna Skladmann presents a site-specific installation on the building front of the New Covent Garden Flower Market called Ghost In The Machine. The artist juxtaposes the errors and ghosting of her scanning machine with the fragility of exotic botanical findings that she sources at the market. The specimens have no roots, they are cut and are ready for trade, floating in the technological glitches of her scanning machine. Only the botanical names and their origin stories point to their heritage, home and adopted mythology. She raises questions on botanical classifications systems exploring notions of nature and society, cultivation and the machine.