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A site specific video installation, painting on wood and porcelain, wax, cement, wood, found objects, plaster. Curator: Meital Manor 2013

"A once abandoned laboratory is now inhabited by a wasp’s nest and an urban organism in a new video installation by Nivi Alroy. The inspiration for the piece can be found in scientific studies of natural phenomena, mechanisms of self-destruction and urban habitat. In this installation, she maintains a dialogue with these theoretical concepts while developing a new narrative. Drawing from the “Red Queen’s hypothesis,” (Van Valen, 1973) principle of constant transformation as a crucial tool in evolutionary development, she creates a symbiotic environment, where one life form is simultaneously dependent but also threatens the other. Animated organisms are bursting out of an old scientific laboratory, touched by time, bring to mind the collision point between artificially induced life and natural habitat."

Meital Manor.