invited
3nd edition - 2023
2023
seeds: memories and metaphors of a collective body
Natalia Carminati
Seeds: memories and metaphors of a collective body works with the way in which the mechanisms of colonisation are revealed in the hegemonic agro-food model, imposing dominant plant species that act by displacing local species and varieties. These movements of deterritorialisation not only marginalise plant crops, but also the memory and knowledge of communities working with the territory and its particular environmental conditions. In this way, free and biodiverse seeds, with their intrinsic capacity to regenerate life, are dispossessed from the land in order to plant, in their place, monocultures of sterile seeds patented by chemical-pharmaceutical companies that subject nature to their criteria of productivity and economic yield.
Natalia Carminati (Buenos Aires, 1982) focuses her work on the critical study of contemporary culture, post-colonial theory, biotechnology and food sovereignty. She has received awards and grants from the Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona City Council, Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, La Escocesa, Creació i Museus and Baden-Württemberg. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions and performances at MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Museo Picasso Barcelona, Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, Born Centro de Cultura y Memoria, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras (Alicante), L'Estruch (Sabadell), Fabra i Coats, Konvent Zero (Berga), Casa de Cultura de Sant Cugat del Vallès, Hybrid Fair (Madrid), SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, LOOP Barcelona, GREC Festival, Salmon Festival, Tangent Projects, Ostavinska Galerija (Belgrade) and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany), among others.
