Projects · 2024
Inventing Souls
Sculpture / Performative installation
- Year
- 2024
- Medium
- Copper spiral, wooden stick, cotton textiles embroidered with living seeds, tree bark, diptych on canvas, pencil.
- Dimensions
- Installation: 100 × 300 cm Diptych: 150 × 400 cm
- Documentation
- Photographs of the performative activation, 2024.
- Location
- COALITION, Gaîté Lyrique
- Credits
- With the participation of Daniel Rangel, director of the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bahia
Inventing Souls is an installation comprising a spiral copper structure, embroidered textile supports and plant materials. The ensemble brings together different species — coffee, cotton, tobacco, corn and beans — whose circulation and uses are linked to the history of trade, plantation economies and population movements.
The copper spiral introduces a biological dimension into the composition. A trace element essential to plant growth, copper plays a role in photosynthesis, cellular respiration and enzymatic activity. Its concentration is crucial: indispensable in small amounts, it becomes toxic beyond certain thresholds. Its presence establishes a connection between the metal structure, plants' physiological processes and the balance of living systems.
The installation extends into a performative activation that engages the materials, embroidery gestures and properties of the plant elements. It connects growth cycles, transformations of matter and the historical and spiritual dimensions associated with the species represented.