I Hate the Plant, the Plant Hates Me and I Want…

Imagine a greenhouse where strawberries grow on human blood. Drawing from her experience of living with rare and severe allergies, Margherita Soldati stages an impossible relationship between an allergic body and the plant it desires but cannot eat. In an attempt to bring the plant closer to her own body, she began growing strawberry plants using her blood as part of their nourishment, asking whether changing the conditions in which they grow could change their relationship to her. Performance times