Activity promoted by Paula Bruna in the framework of the artistic research “La forêt noire” developed thanks to the CREA and OSIC 2022 grants.
With Jordi Martínez Vilalta, Iván Pérez Lorenzo and Paula Bruna.
Our idyllic imaginary of the forest is colonised by images typical of central and northern Europe, such as the great deciduous forests through which it is easy to walk. In the Mediterranean, on the other hand, shrubby ecosystems and forests with dense undergrowth abound, where lianas and thorny plants make it difficult to pass through. Here nature prickles and the green is dark, brown and ochre, and the forest feels more uncomfortable than the ideal of colonised nature.
In this artistic-scientific encounter we will talk about the anthropocentric morality that we place on the forest and the European ideal that colonises us, about the “rebellious” plants, and about the possibility of claiming their being-in-the-world independently of their assembly with human moral norms.
