Vatra Verde

Art Mirror Association

Vatra Verde project represented Romania at the London Design Biennale in 2023 and is with this occasion for the first time on view in Bucharest. A living installation, the work is made of innovative materials, plants, and recycled paper, transforming the plants’ vibrations into sound. The experience is then extended and mediated through a program consisting of workshops and artistic moments build on visual, musical, and educative concepts.

Created by the Art Mirror Association members, Vatra Verde has been so far explored by over 300.000 visitors within a traveling exhibition which started in London and then continued in Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, and Târgu-Mureș.

The elements the installation is made of are renewable energy, mycelium, artistic objects made from recycled materials, interactivity, tradition, poetry, as well as a technical solution through which the plants’ vibrations are turned into sound. From an aesthetical point of view the installation pays homage to Brâncuși, by reinterpreting his seminal work titled “Table of Silence”, whereas from the point of view of the message it transmits, it implies strategies of sustainability and protection of the environment.

Art Mirror Association is a cultural NGO based in Cluj experimenting and testing techniques and durable solutions in order to educate communities in the field of recycling, reusing of materials, and ecology. Active since 2015, it organizes workshops, exhibitions, and community activities.