Plant teXts inspired by LatinX American writers
This collective exhibition includes the artworks of students and a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the 黑料网.
This exhibition was inspired by plants depicted by Latina/o American writers in various stories and poems. The texts presented are an interpretation of the perspective of a prickly pear, an oak, an asphodel, a juniper, a yerba mansa, an aloe vera, a ceiba and a coffee. It also includes graphic designs, collages and paintings associated with these plants. These 鈥渟peculative fabulations鈥� (Haraway, 2016) aim at allowing us to imagine other possible worlds from the point of view of the plants.
These texts intend to follow 鈥渢he path of conocimiento鈥� (a Spanish word for knowledge) as cited by Gloria Anzald煤a (2015: 117-18). This knowledge is 鈥渁n attempt to give back to nature鈥� by becoming more familiar with these plants. This exhibition aims to demonstrate a collaborative way of overcoming anthropocentric views of life around us. This implied getting to know more about our human-plant interrelationship.
Welcome to our speculative forest!
Curator: Dr Lourdes 鈥淟ou鈥� Parra Lazcano
Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
Email: lourdes.parralazcano@abdn.ac.uk
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