GENOA TO CO-CURATE ART EXHIBITION ON GENETIC DIVERSITY AT THE 7TH EUROPEAN CONSERVATION GENETICS MEETING
GENOA WG5 will co-curate an art exhibition during the 7th European Conservation Genetics Meeting in Antwerp, Belgium, bringing together artists and scientists to explore how genetic diversity can be communicated beyond scientific language. The exhibition, Evolving Narratives, curated by Xiatong Cai, Siyu Gao, and Ivan Vander Biesen, unfolds as a journey from genetic data to public imagination. Artist Simon Martin's visualization of population structure introduces genetic diversity as a pattern and scientific evidence, while Yi Zhao's DNA-based practice expands it into questions of identity, society, and human connection. Ivan Vander Biesen's Basil reflects on growth, transformation, and the timing of conservation across a species'
