Arabidopsis Thaliana

The artist Santiago Reyes presents Arabidopsis Thaliana at MAMBO, together with Ilona Jurkonyté, in which they investigate the potential for expanding the notions of environment and landscape. Through the installation they reinterpret a specific moment in planetary history: the germination of a specimen of the Arabidopsis thaliana plant and the production of seeds in space. As part of the exhibition, an Arabidopsis thaliana will be cultivated next to the entrance of the MAMBO, in the sixth race, and its growth will be broadcast live in the exhibition space and on digital channels.

Arabidopsis Thaliana is an exhibition that intertwines a variety of narratives and registers: science fiction and rhetoric – experiential and speculative – that evokes the legacies of the Cold War. The objective is to question the limits and excesses of the views of the scientific world, which sometimes turn out to be premonitory of cosmic or ecological catastrophes.

This sample is one of the two winning proposals for Secondary Effects -the call launched in 2020- that invited artists or audiovisual producers of medium or long career to investigate the environmental and sustainable effects of our uncertain present through a new work that faces the relationship between nature, landscape and territory.

The project can be viewed from March 25, 2021 to August 1, 2021.

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