We meet at the field of glitching flowers, an installation by Renea Begolli, which brings together sculptural “glitch flowers” and landscape fragments made from new and upcycled paper, metal scraps, and plastic remnants. Rather than depicting plants realistically, these forms embody contradictions: fragile and spiky, organic and artificial, improvised and intentional. They function as fragments of an imagined ecosystem, suggesting a terrain shaped by disruption and continual reassembly.

Working with already-used materials, Begolli aligns herself with the call to “stay with the trouble”, formulated by Donna Haraway, embracing processes of transformation rather than resolution. A looping video of digitally manipulated natural forms expands this inquiry, creating a dialogue between material leftovers and their glitched digital doubles. Across both physical and digital components, Begolli approaches the glitch as method and metaphor, an index of instability suggesting that ecologies just like bodies are unstable, incomplete, and constantly shifting.

Drawing from Legacy Russell’s proposition that one “becomes a glitch,” the work probes how bodies are represented, archived, and recognized. Nature, in this installation, appears as improvised and resistant, constantly reshaping. Inspired by wildflowers, the sculptures refuse fixed identity: speculative organisms shaped by disturbance, adaptation. They mutate, misbehave, and survive through disorder.

These structures defy the expectations of symmetry, function, and normative aesthetics. They grow against the grain, revealing forms that resist prediction and control. This refusal acts as an ecological gesture, emphasizing that nature does not conform to human frameworks. Within this space of strangeness and partiality, the installation invites viewers to reflect on what it means to encounter “the other,” whether plant, body, fragment, or digital entity, and to imagine ecological, bodily, and technological relations unfolding beyond established systems of order and domination.