to Threptikon

Heidi Norton @ Moniqie Meloche

Radiation Jungle, 2014, pigment print.

Aristotle postured that plants have a vegetative soul called “to threptikon”. Centuries later, Charles Darwin hypothesized that plants are cognitive organisms with a “root-brain” acting as a control center. These ideas are still hotly debated, but recent studies prove that plants are not just passive, immobile organisms; they’re endowed with sophisticated abilities to communicate, signal, and detect danger- above ground and below.

In her first solo exhibition at moniquemeloche, to Threptikon, Heidi Norton employs the parallels between plant and human cognition in order to explore ideas of unseen and invisible systems at work in the natural world.

Click here to read more. The show opens tonight from 6-8 PM.