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︎PIPA!

TECHO SOSTENIDO

[Sustained Roof]

This is the name we have given to the only green space in the building, which is located on the roof, and which, after having built a structure there and several workshops to populate it with a garden, we have decided to activate as a place for research between art and nature, with experimental laboratories for artists and curators, which allow us to approach the notion of sustainability and rurality from the city. The residencies that take place in this space seek to experiment around agropolitan practices towards a reflection on food sovereignty. This in turn empowers the rooftop as a node that fosters dialogue and transcultural action under the premises of low/cost and low/technology. The activities developed in this space also seek to be narrated through meals that the project promoters offer to tell the story of their work processes.



*Images of the ceiling of the Space of All.

︎︎︎ THE PROXIMITY OF AN INTANGIBLE TERRITORY(2021-2022)

Natalia Pilo - Pais (PER)* residence


Project that investigates on the vegetable memory in the individual in front of the new territory where he/she lives. The research is developed through the study of food and plant species originating from the Latin American continent and how they evolve in the European territory -and of course- from the European territory to the Latin American one, either in the past or in the present. The foods investigated have a common element that relies on the memory of the individual and how these same foods share climatic similarities and in turn share ritual states of the past, which generate similarities that develop a fluidity in the concepts of migration, territory, closeness and memory.


Also, from an anthropological point of view, it is questioned and documented how the individual lives together with these plant species with the geography of the place, with its replanting and domestication, which generates in him a search for these species in European territory. We know that these species are difficult to find, but it is hoped that this search will comfort the memory and the need for similar but not the same species, but which have in common, as repeated above: the territory, migration, proximity and memory, which are also qualities of art itself.


In this process of research, documentation and creation it is expected to generate collective results that start from interventions in spaces that in this case is "The sustained roof of the Espacio de Todo" where it is expected in the first place: to achieve the recovery of this small vegetal space in the face of the damages it suffered with the storm Filomena in Madrid, Spain in January 2021. This implies recovering not only the space but also the original species, bringing it to its original state and adding a small tropical environment as a garden.

And secondly: To make a record of these recovered plant species through photography and other visual media, which will be the starting point to develop artistic conversations contributing to the understanding of art and the artist in migration.

* Natalia Pilo-Pais Figallo (Lima, Peru - 1984)
She lives in Madrid. Visual artist focused mainly on creative direction and the creative process with a Masters in Philosophy with a major in Philosophical Anthropology as a complementary part of her creative research. She develops deep historical, social and geographical research, generating visual concepts through diverse media such as installation and photography. For her, the power of the image in our contemporaneity is motivation to search and generate questions in the observer.
https://www.nataliapilopais.com/ 

︎︎︎Public opening of the process "THE PROXIMITY OF AN INTANGIBLE TERRITORY".

October 8, 2022

The migration of an individual intertwines two territories: one that is visible, whose reality is shaped by the palpable, and another that is invisible, whose essence is preserved through memories. As new memories emerge from the visible territory and the memories of the invisible territory are diluted, the traces of what is and what was are redefined.
"Cercanías de un territorio intangible" (2020 - 2022) was a project that investigated the migrant's perception of a new territory, focusing on the memory of the individual in relation to vegetation and how it is perceived in the new geographic territory in which he/she lives.

The research examined how plant species and cultivated foods from the Latin American continent develop in the Iberian Peninsula both in the past and in the present. The foods and plant species documented share climatic and ritual similarities that are (still) invoked by the individual, similarities that awaken fluidity in the concepts of migration, territory, proximity and memory, which are notions that are also part of Art.

From an anthropological point of view, it is questioned and documented how the individual tries to coexist with these plant species in the geography of the place on the basis of their replanting and domestication, brought about by the search for them in the European territory. Although these foods are difficult to acquire, it is hoped that this determined attempt will comfort the memory and the need, in front of similar but not equal species. The process leads to expose the different collective experiences exposed in visual biographies. These stories transform "places into spaces or spaces into places" (Auge, 1992, 86), which can be generated from a "fantasy of the founded and incessantly re-founding place that is but a semi-fantasy" (Auge, 1992, 52).

All this documentation took the form of a unique publication, as a photobook, which the artist arranged at its opening, together with a series of documents representing the process.

To know the recipe that Natalia Pilo - Pais prepared at the opening of the process, check in Recipes



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︎︎︎ SOW HERE!

During the year 2021 and in a long-term residency that extends to 2022, this space hosts the project Siembre aquí! (Sow here!)by curator Daniela Ruiz Moreno (UY-ARG)*, and artists Natalia Pilo-Pais (PER)* and Ugo Martínez Lázaro (MEX)*.