Ruderal assemblages
Exhibited at the group show Ruins and Fragments held at the Garagem Avenida Gallery (EAAD - UMinho), curated by Beatriz Duarte (Guimarães, December 2023).
Arranjos ruderais - Arquinho #1, #2, #3 e #4
From a day spent at the old Arquinho Factory, the first ruderal assemblages emerge—assemblies of elements collected in situ that speculate about the mixed ecosystems produced by decay. Ruderals are the resilient plant species that sprout from, or despite, human-made debris and waste. I extend this category to include, beyond spontaneous plants, the broken objects left in the ruin as a vestige of their former formal use or as a mark of informal appropriations that take place there. Ruderal is the green that sprouts, but also the gray that is germinated by the anonymous and occasional users of the space. Bricks and fragmented cell phones, textile spools and phytoplastic tapes, stems and metal gutters. Combining as one who creates landscapes to think about contamination in multiplicity.
