The two founders of the Studio Swine, the architect Azusa Murakami and the English artist Alexander Groves, have always been fascinating to small, but fundamental, living beings that are part of the natural world. With their latest immersive installation, Infinity Blue, they wanted to pay homage to cyanobacteria. These microorganisms, which many of you probably didn’t know existed, are the reason why we are here today and can breathe. Yes, because billions of years ago it was they who produced oxygen for the first time, quoting the video presentation of the work, making the World take its first breath.

But what is Infinity Blue concretely? It’s a 9-meter-high reproduction of a stromatolite, or a stack of fossilized cyanobacteria, made of huge clay and ceramic tiles. From the installation, through 32 vortex cannons, steam is constantly fired, the scent of which tells the story of the earth’s atmosphere. 

What makes the experience even more unique is the location in which Infinty Blue was built, i.e. inside Project Eden in Cornwall, formed by two huge domes in which more than one hundred thousand species of plants from all over the world are kept.