Mimicry is an artistic exploration of speculative species at the intersection of plants and insects, generated through artificial intelligence to metaphorically reflect nature's adaptive strategies.
By evoking evolutionary processes such as exaptation and mimicry, the project reflects on biodiversity facing rapid ecological shifts driven by climate change and human activity, imagining hybrid beings that embody new strategies of survival. Through these entities, Mimicry envisions unprecedented forms of coexistence capable of adapting to a planet in transformation.

Light Art Museum, 2025
In this installation, the three walls become a single continuous surface. The hybrid organisms are projected across three walls, surrounding the viewer with images of speculative life forms that appear and dissolve in a continuous loop. Rendered at human scale against a dark background, each being carries a genetic code tracing its taxonomic origins: insect order, plant clade, the biome it comes from and the one it is moving toward.
At the center, a real-time data visualization maps all possible hybridizations across the five biome transitions explored in the work: a three-dimensional filament network that highlights, moment by moment, the specific organisms appearing on the walls.
The specificity of this installation is that, at recurring points throughout the loop, a single being expands to fill all three walls entirely: a monumental encounter with a hybrid form, suspended in between times and regions.




Mimicry is an artwork by fuse*
Project Team
Mattia Carretti
Olimpia Zamò
Matteo William Salsi
Riccardo Bazzoni
Scientific Consultants
Renato Bruni, Università degli Studi di Parma
Mariagrazia Portera, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Light Art Museum, Budapest (HU)
