Artwork Description ENG// This project will include several phases that focus on the transcription and interpretation of beetle galleries (unique patterns beetles make underneath the bark of trees) into a pictorial language. My hypothesis is that I will uncover patterns that will lead me closer to a potential awareness of inter-species communication. The speculative translations…
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Folded Light: Study N.1 — Rudolfo Quintas
Artwork Description ENG// A visual study of animated circles projected onto a bending sheet of paper, where light follows the geometry of deformation. This piece is an outcome of a residency by Rudolfo Quintas. He was investigating how the perception of our body is culturally changing through medical information. He explored the idea of a…
Bumblebee Ecosystem — Yuko Oda
Artwork Description ENG// Japanese mineral pigments, sumi, and graphite on paper, 2025 My proposal at Cultivamos Culturas was to draw the insects and plants around the premises, dead and alive—to observe nature everyday. Some days it reached over 100 degrees. The sun made everything bright, and the skies were cloudless. My first drawing was of…
The Barn — Ana Baleia
Artwork Description ENG// In her artistic practice, Ana Baleia works essentially with textile waste, seeking to rescue not only the material, but also that which is immaterial. Starting from this idea and relating it to her interest in religious records and reliquaries, throughout the ‘Credo’ artistic residency at Cultivamos Cultura she has developed works that…
Cultivamos Cultura Sensory Garden — Crystal Kershaw
Artwork Description ENG// The sensory garden at Cultivamos Cultura is the outcome of a three month residency during which the artist transitioned the area – containing and repurposing a previous artist’s work (a compost pile) – into a newly grown green space, intended as an interactive haven, offering myriad sensorial stimuli. The work explores themes…