Suspended in the Iris is a site-specific installation by artist Diana Sofia Lozano. Lozano braids steel, wool, and clay into an undefinable botanical chimera that eludes clarity and recognition. Located in the street-level window display of Home Gallery, her installation invites passersby to question their impulses to dissect, classify, and exoticize the spectacle, in order to interrogate a Western desire to dominate our surroundings as a way to make sense of the world around us. Lured by the installation’s floral epicenter, passersby catch themselves reflected in its habitat as they become a spectacle absorbed into the language of Lozano’s objects, creating an interspecies perspective that decenters our own while blurring the boundaries of viewership. By connecting the exoticization and classification of plants to systems of gender, sexuality, and race, Lozano accounts for how taxonomy fails to communicate the complexities and interconnectivities of the world in which we live.

Alongside the exhibition, ACOMPI published a limited-edition, signed and numbered risograph print by Diana Sofia Lozano, as well as an artist-designed shirt.