In Vernal Unfolding, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky uses spring as a laboratory. Sections of the beech (Fagus sylvatica) are placed directly onto a colour negative and captured by light. There is no camera involved—just a direct encounter between plant and medium.
The resulting print reveals a tree trunk and leaves unfolding within the image, as traces of movement and growth. In this way, Kovacovsky connects the early history of photography with a contemporary perspective on ecology and materiality—a work that is simultaneously a record and a transformation.