What if you could hold time in your hands — not human time, but plant time?

In the botanical greenhouse of the Garden School in Hveragerði, many non-human lives are collaborating : plant roots stretching, bacteria and insects make soil, bees are pollinating, sunlight is falling across the banana tree leaves. Most of this life unfolds too slowly, too quietly, or at a frequency humans simply aren't built to notice.

The project Plant Data Worlds makes this invisible life tangible. Using sensors and microphones placed among living plants, artist Thomas Pausz and Miguel Crozzoli capture the hidden pulse of a plant ecosystem — growth patterns, environmental changes, the hum of insect life. That data is then shaped by machine learning into something you can actually hold: a small sculpture unique to its ecosystem, carrying within it the signature of a living place.

But these aren't silent objects. Each sculpture has its own voice — a sound-world derived from the harmonic structure of the data itself. Hold it, listen to it, navigate it.

What was once an abstract dataset becomes something you can relate to with the same curiosity and care that attach us to plants.

This is an invitation to slow down and sense the world the way plants do.

All exhibitions open on Friday, August 28 at 5pm and remain open during each location’s regular opening hours until September 4.