The plants pushing through Florence's pavements, climbing its walls, and seeding its forgotten corners are rarely called nature. More often, they're called weeds.

Botanica is a photographic and multidisciplinary project that asks us to look again. Commissioned by Singulart and SACI Florence, the work takes Botticelli's Primavera — a painting that catalogues over 138 plant species and places the natural world as the stage for human culture — as its point of departure. Centuries later, that ideology of separation between human and nature still shapes how we see, and what we value.

Moving through Florence with a camera and radical empathy, the project documents the city's overlooked flora and the people who share its liminal spaces — above pavements, between walls, beyond the boundaries of what gets to be called beautiful or alive. Each portrait takes the pulse of the city: which plants and people thrive here, which are treated as invasive, and what their relationship to each other reveals.

The process is as much the work as the images. Rooted in eco-social sustainability, the production was adapted to local systems and networks, minimising its footprint while deepening its roots.

Botanica dissolves the categories we've inherited — natural and unnatural, useful and weed, human and non-human — and offers in their place something rarer: a more complete, more generous way of seeing the world we actually live in.