The roots of Lugar Semente

What shapes are embodied by my seed-body? What are my roots?

What do trees and human beings have in common?

These questions triggered a a co-creation project by the artist Maja Escher with young students from a primary school throughout 9 months of work. This collective reflection resulted in the participatory work Lugar Semente exhibited in the Gulbenkian Garden from 18 June to 7 July and which this guided tour addresses and contextualizes.

This artwork is part of the third edition of the Lugar project, a participatory education project of artistic creation of CAM, which in the 2024/25 school year was led by the guest artist Maja Escher, 227 students (1st to 4th grade) of the Mestre Querubim Lapa School in Lisbon, their teachers and a museum mediation team, to propose a reflection on the notion of ecology, imagination, and the relationships and fabulations of fertile futures, based on the interdependence between species.