Roberta Trentin

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Roberta Trentin is a multidisciplinary artist who works in collaboration with the materials and the unknown outcomes. Her work explores overlooked stories of fungi, microorganisms, and plants in the more-than-human world. In her practice, that being paper-making with mushrooms, interactive/participatory bio-sonification installations, or bio-fabricating with mycelium, Roberta welcomes members of her species to consider the possibility of decentralizing the human perspective, and invites to shift the attention from the <em>forward </em> to the <em>around us</em>. At core of her work lies a recurring question; what does it mean to be mycelium? For Roberta, mycelium widens one’s perspective, it invites to look <em>beneath</em> and explore new intricate entanglements. A background in science and a love of the earth, her work results in an interweaving of macro/micro observations and deeply personal stories. Roberta is originally from Italy, she moved to the US in 2008 and splits her time between the forests of the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn.