Opening: 15th November: 6:00-9:00 pm
Performance: “Brindis de petróleo y conservantes”: 7:00 pm
Between November 15 and 18, artist Natalia Carminati will show her project “Semillas: memorias y metáforas de un cuerpo colectivo” [Seeds: memories and metaphors of a collective body] at Homesession. The project raises how the mechanisms of colonization are revealed in the hegemonic agri-food model, imposing dominant plant species that act by displacing local species and varieties. These movements of deterritorialization not only marginalize seeds and vegetable crops, but also the memory and knowledge of communities that work in a network with the territory and its particular environmental conditions. In this way, free and biodiverse seeds, with their intrinsic capacity to regenerate life, are stripped from their lands, where monocultures of sterile and patented seeds are grown by chemical-pharmaceutical companies that subject nature to their criteria of productivity and economic yield.
In collaboration with projects that work for food sovereignty, the proposal consists of a live installation of forgotten wild species -from a gastronomic perspective- that invites us to connect with the knowledge and flavors of the land. The exhibition will open and close with two performative events on November 15 and 18.
Natalia Carminati (Buenos Aires, 1982) is a visual artist and researcher.
Her research work and the conceptual development of her practice is oriented to the critical study of contemporary culture, postcolonial 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.
His projects are materialized in the creation of multisensory devices that integrate video, sound experimentation, video game, painting, installation and performance. 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.
He has worked as an artist in residence at Fabra i Coats, Konvent Zero, Piramidón and BAIR Belgrade. He is currently working as artist in residence at La Escocesa and Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica. He is also part of the current board of PAAC.
In collaboration with La Escocesa.
