Cultivating the murky with ruderal plants
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Date
- 16:00 / Cancelled 16:00 / Sold out Sunday, 16:00
Location
Studio Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
Inês Zenha and Teresa Castro discuss ruderal plants, the humblest of them all, and what they can teach us about living on disturbed ground.
As part of the exhibition Inês Zenha. Murky Waters, the artist talks to researcher Teresa Castro about ruderal plants: species that grow and thrive spontaneously in environments disturbed by human activity.
They are not merely the “weeds” of cities and industrial estates, or the successful colonisers of wastelands and urine-soaked tree pits. Flourishing in the everyday ruins of capitalism, they are exceptional companions for thinking and, above all, for cultivating turbulence.
This conversation will be conducted in Portuguese, with simultaneous interpretation into English. The session will also include interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language.
Duration: 90 min
Participants
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Inês Zenha
Inês Zenha (Lisbon, 1995) has a degree in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins in London and, until recently, lived and worked in Paris. She currently lives and works in Lisbon.
Her work is included in various institutional collections and her most recent solo and group exhibitions include: Collegium, Arévalo; Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris; La Maison Rouge, Paris; Saatchi Gallery, London; Central Saint Martins, London; and Freud Museum, London.
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Teresa Castro
Teresa Castro is a historian of photography and cinema, a researcher, and a university lecturer. She currently teaches at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. Her research lies at the intersection of cinema, ecology, animism, and the history of technical images.
Credits
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Inês Zenha, 'Murky-Waters', 2025 (detail of the work) © Sue Ponce, Courtesy Museo CA2M.
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