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Agente
Biológico

2023


Co-directed
with Marina Otero Verzier

The Almeria landscape bears the imprint of the terraforming processes carried out in Spain by the Franco regime.
The architectures of the colonization towns and infrastructural projects erected at the time were means to convert bodies into laborers and landscapes into resources to be exploited. Their logic persists to this day, prominently displayed in the sprawling network of greenhouses that span hundreds of kilometers and produce the food that sustain us: tomatoes, zucchinis, peppers, watermelons. The plastic skins that build them wrap around the bodies of those who work tirelessly in the service of the production chain. Each is specialized in discrete but interconnected operations: planting, pollination, pest control, and harvesting. Absorbed in the familiarity of their tasks, they perform a choreographed dance every day in the factories where bumblebees are produced; in the rows of zucchini where humans work with repetitive manual movements, fueled by energy drinks; in the sheds where tomatoes are sorted; in the areas that accumulate discarded wrinkled skins, once greenhouses. Despite automation's tendency to mold workers into disciplined beings, their dances render bodies as generative mediums of embodied knowledge, places of agency and desire.



CURATORS
Eduardo Castillo Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña


Biological Agent was commisioned by the Spanish Pavillion at the 18th Biennale Architettura, 2023.

HD Video 24’45’’ 2023


Installation in the Spanish Pavillion, 18th
Venice Architecture Biennale
Installation in Casa de la Arquitectura, Madrid





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