On the occasion of the 61st Venice Biennale, artist Loris Cecchini presents ALLOCHORIES at Palazzo Nani Bernardo. This exhibition explores the biological concept of “allochory”, the dispersal of seeds and organisms into new territories, transforming sculpture into a relational event that blurs the boundaries between nature and artifice.
Set within the rigors of an Italian garden—a space historically defined by symmetry, measure, and the human control of nature—Cecchini’s modular sculptures take root as “allochoric” presences. These are not merely static objects, but artificial organisms that settle into the environment according to the logic of propagation, adaptation, and organic growth.
In ALLOCHORIES, the historical garden is no longer a static backdrop but a hosting organism. The project envisions the landscape as a field of forces in constant redefinition, where every form represents both rootedness and displacement, belonging and alterity.Through this intervention, sculpture becomes a threshold: a material capable of bringing the invisible to the surface, giving form to transition, and poetically inhabiting the “elsewhere.”