Daniel Hengst’s solo exhibition at Frontviews HAUNT displays two multimedia installations building on a common narrative. Within the framework of the EMAP, Hengst developed, in 2021, the VR work Blooming Love. The work focuses on 30 plant species from Latvian peatlands, which Hengst transferred into virtual reality during his residency. By moving through the virtual peatland, visitors explore the morphology of these special organisms, as well as their own absence, as a speculative future of the relationship between humans and nature. With the exhibition at Frontviews HAUNT, Blooming Love celebrates its due to the coronavirus long-awaited German premiere. In the exhibition Blooming Love is complemented by a second media art installation, called Nastien & Tropismen, which explores the issue of human blindness towards plants and awareness of nature.

The exhibition takes place until 5 November 2022.