With The (Rotterdam) Root, Sandro Setola claims a place in the city in an almost megalomaniac way, without the need for a single cubic meter of land. This inverted root system hangs above and between the city's buildings. It exposes the intertwining of reality and imagination, demonstrates the energy field of creative potential and connects the places where this creativity is expressed in the city. In this work our irrepressible urge to imagination is confronted with the brick reality. The (Rotterdam) Root could only be experienced through the screen of your smartphone. In the spring of 2022, there was a sign in front of the entrance to Het Nieuwe Instituut with a QR code that could be scanned to download and activate the Root app.