Opening: Saturday September 16th 12pm
In these times of uncertainty regarding our relationship with nature, we have moved far beyond perceiving it as a resource at the service and care of humanity. Instead, we have begun to ponder whether we are even capable of caring for nature, or if perhaps we should solely seek inspiration and refuge in it. In the midst of this global bioethical crisis, contemporary art, with its capacity to generate new symbolic values that profoundly resonate with us, shares a historical and inescapable responsibility for change alongside life sciences, social sciences, economics, politics, and other disciplines.
Policies with the Earth presents a series of artistic practices rooted in engaging with the territory through a logic of empathy and love, rather than the utilization, control, and quantification of nature. From labyrinthine paths of adobe with a hybrid organicist approach to re-evaluations of how we acquire knowledge of the Earth and potential ways to virtuously reconnect with it, both physically and spiritually, the artistic proposals of Adriana Rostovsky, Eloísa Ibarra, and Alejandra González Soca suggest possible synergies to reintegrate us into the profound cycle of the elements.
Ultimately, it may simply be a matter of knowing how to recirculate, prospect and return knowledge to the Earth in a sensible and co-created way within the vast spectrum of the living, of which we are undeniably a part.
Pablo La Padula
Image: Alejandra González Soca
