We are happy to host in April our second artist-in-residence, Anaïs Tondeur, winner of the Photographie & Sciences 2023 award, in collaboration with the French Institute – MIRA Programme. In continuity of “Chernobyl Herbarium”, Anaïs will continue to develop with the philosopher Michael Marder a dialogue with ruderal and phytoremediative plants growing in extreme soils, in this case, on the ashes of the anthropic fires of Terra dei Fuochi and the volcanic Vesuvio area, nearby Napoli. The new series “Living Herbarium” will be carried out through an experimental and sustainable photographic protocol, without extracting the plants from their soils, using a process of phytography. The artist will also create a Medicinal Herbarium of Calcined Lives based on photographs of igneous fragments of curative plants excavated from the ashes of Pompeii and Herculaneum.