Artist: Martin Romeo

In this love together

In this love together addresses the phenomenon of mutualism as both a biological and social paradigm: an interaction between species, or individuals, based on a reciprocal exchange of essential resources and services such as nutrition, protection, or transport. The work translates this natural principle into a reflection on identity transformation, suggesting that being absorbed or altered through encounter with the other does not represent a loss, but rather a necessary condition for overcoming isolation and accessing a collective dimension.
The installation stages symbiosis as a volatile, generative architecture capable of producing new forms. In nature, such interspecies relationships give rise to organisms and complex systems that persist over time, modifying structures and behaviors according to the balance of ecosystems and biodiversity. The work evokes emblematic examples of invisible yet essential cooperation: the union between wasp and flower that enables the formation of the fig, the Yucca moth, and the interaction between algae and corals.
Through these references, the work highlights how change, whether biological or social, emerges from encounter and reciprocal contamination. In nature one can observe the passage of time and the impact of climatic transformations: in the behaviors of animals and plants we read a constant adaptation, a shared response to environmental conditions.
The holographic component of the installation integrates a poem that creates a bridge between “other” nature and “our” nature. Biological dynamics become a metaphor for affective and communal relationships, proposing coexistence as a process of shared transformation. The work suggests that continuity does not reside in the unchanged permanence of identity, but in the capacity to transform together.

In this love together
something unforeseen is born,
species touch
and become otherwise.

One life
lays the ground
towards a shared horizon.

Hold what is now,
not what may come.

Not every encounter lasts.
Not every one needs to.

There is nothing to lose
but the idea of being the same.
To find oneself
in another form
is the only continuity,
the only way to remain together.

Dimensions: 50x120x22cm, 40x5cm
Tecnica: resina stampata, LED fan, luci, legno, componenti elettroniche
Year: 2026