Procreation of the Gods is the third event that Andrea Mastrovito designed and created during his two-month residency at Analix Forever Gallery in Geneva in the summer of 2005.
Inspired by the story of Sadako Sasaki and her 1,000 paper cranes, after painting hundreds of bats for his previous exhibition (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Batman), the artist created thousands of colorful paper origami figures with the help of the local population. The origami pieces start from the central supporting column that characterizes the gallery and which, for the occasion, is transformed into a white tree: branches, paper leaves, and origami pieces thus reach the three collages placed on the three sides of the gallery. In the largest of the three collages, Mastrovito portrays himself trying to fly these paper cranes towards a female figure covered in paper butterflies (this detail foreshadows the subsequent double solo exhibition in Milan in 2006, In & Out of Life, with various installations of paper butterflies).