
Ciguatera – Toxic Blooms
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Is science part of the same world as art is? Often we act as if science is out of our reality and in another dimension. However, if science is made by us, the same humans that are actors and makers of any historical process then science would be also part of the colonial world.
How then can we understand the role of science in colonial processes and how is science entangled in power relations? Questions like these have driven the artistic practice of Diana Policarpo.
Chus Martínez joins the artist for a talk on her installation ‘Ciguatera’, a work based on a trip that Diana Policarpo took to the Selvagens Islands, in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Presented in the Project Space, the installation reflects on natural biodiversity while mapping colonial histories and inventing new myths and new forms of letting nature tell its own story.
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Diana Policarpo
Diana Policarpo (b. Portugal) is a visual artist and composer working in visual and musical media including drawing, video, sculpture, text, performance, and multi-channel sound installation. Policarpo investigates gender politics, economic structures, health, and interspecies relations through speculative transdisciplinary research. She creates installations to examine experiences of vulnerability and empowerment associated with acts of exposing oneself to the capitalist world.
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Chus Martínez
Chus Martínez (b. Spain) has a background in philosophy and art history. She is currently the Head of the Institute of Art Gender Nature of the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel, Switzerland, and associate curator of TBA21 in Madrid/Venice. She is also the artistic director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts and a board member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums). Martínez has organized numerous exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists. She lectures and regularly writes catalogue texts and critical essays, and is a contributor to international journals.
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Exhibition view 'The Soul Expanding Ocean #4: Diana Policarpo. Ciguatera'. Photo: Matteo De Fina
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