Whispering Forest is a site-responsive, evolving installation that grows as a global living archive— built each time from locally reclaimed or ethically sourced trees native to the place where it appears. Each iteration forms a temporary grove: a constellation of standing trunks and branches— weathered, salvaged, and re-activated through subtle sculptural and sonic interventions that translate forest presence into an experience of listening. The project originates from a deeply personal source: a mulberry tree in Azerbaijan that once belonged to the artist’s late grandfather. After the tree’s natural death, its presence became the conceptual seed of Whispering Forest—a way of bringing memory back into resonance rather than allowing it to disappear. What began as an intimate act of remembrance has since expanded into a global practice, where trees from different landscapes carry not only ecological histories but human ones as well. Rather than transporting a single fixed artwork across borders, Whispering Forest travels as a method and score. In every location, the work is rebuilt with local trees, local labor, and local ecological narratives, allowing the installation to become a portrait of that landscape—its species, climate, and histories of extraction and care. The project has developed through a growing network of sites including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Latvia, Italy, Germany, Saudi Arabia and the United States, with the next iteration planned for United Arab Emirates and Argentina. Sound is a central element of the work and is derived from plant-based data of the same tree species as the dead trunks used in each installation. Using a custom-built sound technology, biological signals from living plants of the corresponding species are translated into subtle sonic compositions, creating a direct material and conceptual continuity between the living forest, the fallen tree, and the sculptural form. The forest becomes both archive and instrument. Arranged as an intentional spatial composition—part sanctuary, part resonant organism—the installation invites slow movement, stillness, and attunement. Whispering Forest resonates with the broader narrative of the exhibition, serving as both a meditation on ecological healing and a reflection on the invisible bonds between technology and nature. It calls attention to the urgent need for conservation and the restoration of balance, underscoring the scars left upon environments worldwide while inviting hope through the shared resilience of trees. In this sense, Whispering Forest functions as both installation and international ecology project: a platform where each country’s local trees become co-authors, and where the global whole exists only through the specificity of place—rooted in a single mulberry tree, and extending outward into the world.

Synth-ESYS (SE-01)is a localized access point within a distributed network of ecological intelligence. Presented as a cross-section of a larger living infrastructure, the installation reveals one visible fragment of a transnational system extending across multiple geographies. SE-01 is imagined as the Berlin node of a growing constellation that includes SE-02 through SE-1195, and future units embedded within forests, landscapes, and archives around the world. Drawing from the communicative capacities of roots, mycelial systems, and plant bioelectrical activity, the work proposes an alternative model of information architecture—one in which knowledge is accumulated through interdependence rather than extraction. At the center of the installation, a technological root crown marks the point where biological and computational systems converge. From it, exposed conduits extend through the structure, animated by plant-derived datasets collected from living trees across the wider Synth-ESYS network. These are not real-time signals, but archived bioelectrical recordings gathered from forests in different locations. Through the custom-built Light Synth system, the recordings are translated into evolving compositions of light: pulses, rhythms, intensities, and flickering transmissions moving through the installation like traces of a distributed nervous system. SE-01 functions simultaneously as archive, transmitter, and interface. In response to human presence, hidden exchanges surface from the network, allowing visitors to encounter forest intelligence not as data stored about nature, but as memory carried through it. As part of a larger server infrastructure, Synth-ESYS envisions a future in which forests function as planetary knowledge systems. Distributed across continents yet interconnected through shared ecological memory, the SE network proposes an intelligence that exceeds national borders, technological platforms, and human timescales—an ancient, living cloud whose archives are continuously written by the earth itself.