Climate change, environmental fragility, and human impact form the backdrop for Villa Carbon Dioxide. Rising greenhouse gases, deforestation, and industrial activity alter ecosystems, melt ice, and disrupt habitats. In response, Sali Muller envisions a fragile, luminous habitat that reimagines survival beyond these planetary challenges — perhaps even on another world.
A private garden becomes the stage for this immersive installation. Layers of crumpled, translucent cellophane catch sunlight, refract light beams, and create prismatic, rainbow-like effects that shift with the viewer’s perspective and weather conditions. Light transforms the delicate material into a shimmering, ephemeral environment, evoking vulnerability, transparency, and the interdependence of life and environment.
Referencing the mirror and reflective surfaces central to her practice, Muller frames human fragility within ecological fragility. Like a minimalistic cosmic vessel, Villa Carbon Dioxide embodies both meditation and survival: a glass-like structure filled with light, vulnerable materials, and the possibility of a post-apocalyptic renewal. The work resonates with spiritual and metaphorical layers, recalling the quiet awe of a small chapel atop a hill and the poetic promise of an elsewhere, a space suspended between reality, imagination, and the future of life itself.
