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2025, EXPO2025, Osaka, Japan

“Like drops of water along the silvery strands of a spider’s web, Conviviality is a floating cloudscape for cohabitation, for birds, spiders, insects…

 

The Japanese Waxwing looks for seasonal berries following its journey from Mongolia to Japan. While the Eurasian tree sparrow gathers hay and grass for its woven home, Joro spiders’ golden lattices will not be swept away, with all in agreement that those who inhabit the sculptures are granted co-ownership for as long as they stay… Visitors now becoming residents weave webs of life… amidst a global decline of urban wildlife populations. Developed in consultation with experts from the Osaka Tennoji Zoo, these suspended artworks propose alternative models for unexpected, interspecies encounters above the Forest of Tranquility.”

 

—Tomás Saraceno

Conviviality

13.04 – 13.10.2025
Forest of Tranquility
EXPO2025
Osaka, Japan

In the fall of 2024, a team of experts formed by the Osaka Tennoji Zoo conducted a research visit to the Forest of Tranquility in an effort to advise Tomás Saraceno regarding the species of birds, insects and spiders most likely to visit, an potentially build homes, within Conviviality.

 

The research showed that the following species were either already present in The Forest of Tranquility, or may be attracted to the site during their migratory period: Tree Sparrow, Starling, Great Tit, Eurasian Blue Tit, Oriental Greenfinch, Daurian Redstart, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese White-Eye, Japanese Leaf Warbler, Red-flanked Bluetail, Olive-backed Pitpit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Dusky Thrush, Oriental Turtle Dove, Carrion Crow, Jungle Crow, Mandarin Duck, Japanese Waxwing, Pacific ducetia grasshopper, Brown-winged Cicada, Rhinoceros beetles, Joro spider, Golden-ringed Dragonfly.

 

Towards spaces of conviviality, the sculpture was developed with a color pallette that birds and insects are already surrounded by; greens and blues in a matte finish. The fruit bearing trees and flowers with nectar surrounding the sculpture, also provide a good source of food.


 

 

 

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