Andréa Vannucchi: Garden of Possibilities

Open Tue–Fri 9 a.m. – 8 p.m, Sat–Sun 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Free admission!

Garden of Possibilities is an immersive, experiential exhibition that guides the visitor from a hollow in a tree to a planet seen from outer space. In the works of Andréa Vannucchi, a Brazilian visual artist based in Finland, photography and installation converge to create a space where life, matter, and light intertwine.

 The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the foundations of being in an era defined by biodiversity loss and climate change. Drawing on the ideas of philosopher Emanuele Coccia, the world is understood as a garden in which plants are not merely its contents but its gardeners. In the age of environmental catastrophe, can we still conceive of ourselves as separate from photosynthesizing beings, to whom our existence is bound with every breath we take?

Understanding life as interdependence between species opens onto a different way of being – a world in which humans are part of a complex, living network. In the spirit of biologist Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble, the exhibition proposes new

narratives in which humans are no longer at the center of events. Rather than recounting a techno-tragedy of humanity’s self-inflicted extinction, Garden of Possibilities calls for practices of care, decomposition, and recomposition.

Andréa Vannucchi’s artistic practice is situated at the intersection of photography,

materiality, and ecology. She works in collaboration with environmental elements and phenomena: sunlight, organic materials, and surrounding vegetation actively shape the artworks. Her process brings together historical photographic techniques, lenses, and sculptural elements drawn from nature.

Vannucchi lives in Särkisalo, where she tends a vegetable garden, a greenhouse, and a darkroom. She experiences analog photography and printmaking as a natural extension of gardening, as both unfold in the space between control and unpredictability. Vannucchi graduated from the Turku Arts Academy in 2015. She is also a physicist and worked as a physics teacher before coming to Europe.

For more information about exhibitions at Culture House Laikku:

Irma Puttonen

Senior Coordinator

irma.puttonen@tampere.fi

050 553 8673

City of Tampere, Public Cultural Services

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The event will follow Safer Space Guidelines.