Interspecies Kin is the first publication enclosing the research that Giovanni Chiamenti has carried out over the past two years. The project was developed between the United States, specifically in New York during his residency at the NARS Foundation and a subsequent collaboration with the community biolab Genspace, and Italy, thanks to the collaboration with Spazio Volta and the support of his cultural partners Attiva Cultural Projects and The Blank Contemporary Art.

Chiamenti’s practice lies somewhere between scientific popularization and his intent to be formally speculative, bordering on the sci-fi. The artist has created an organic glossary, originated from interspecies relationships, in which creatures demonstrate their adaptability to an increasingly polluted environment and the hybrid becomes the protagonist of rhizomatic relationships capable of interconnecting extremely distant worlds.

The texts within the publication address the issue of micro-plastic pollution plaguing the oceans and its subsequent integration within the evolutionary process of organisms and bacteria inhabiting the deep sea. The topic is addressed not only by curators and critics but also by a marine microbiologist and a biomedical engineer. This is a transdisciplinary project in which the imaginative power of the forms generated by the artist is not intended to obscure the scientific component, but instead to bring the reader closer to the studies conducted in recent years in evolutionism. -Publisher