Hands Herbarium

Hands Herbarium is a site-specific exhibition that shows the people and plants that inhabit around an exhibition space, in this case the Deichtorhallen.

This project creates an anthropological inventory of a specific neighborhood, through the photography of the neighbors' hands and the plants of the area.

 In botany, an herbarium is a collection of plants that are cataloged and studied as a historical record of what is growing in a particular place at a particular time, and the sample to represent the plants are their leaves.
Extrapolating this concept to the human, I recollect (the traits of/) the people from a specific area, taking as a sample the photo of their hands.

The hands are taken/chosen as a representative sample of the human species because our hands connect us with the world, they allow us to touch it, feel it and above all modify and create it; metaphorically they represent our experiences and therefore us.

For a few days I photograph the hands of the people who pass through and experience this space on a daily basis, as well as the plants in the area. After the/this (neighborhood) "collection" a photographic composition is created in the street so that it can be enjoyed and viewed by the passerby /inhabitants of that space.

Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Internationale Kunst und Fotografie · KdK Container · Hamburg (Germany) · 2023-2024