Sandra Gamarra Heshiki at “Extractivisms” 13th Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial
22.02.2025
We are pleased to announce the participation of Sandra Gamarra Heshiki in “Extractivisms. 13th Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial. Group exhibition, curated by María Íñigo Clavo and Christian Alonso.
22.02.2025 — 25.05.2025
Bárbara Fluxá, Carolina Caycedo, Colectivo Cambalache (Carolina Caycedo, Alonso Gil and Federico Guzmán), Estampa (Roc Albalat, Pau Artigas, Marcel Pié, Marc Padró and Daniel Pitarch), FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francîcco Gayardo), Gabriela Bettini, Ignacio Acosta, Joana Moll, Left Hand Rotation, Marilyn Boror Bor, Marina Planas, Paula Bruna, Raúl Silva, Rosell Meseguer, Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, Seba Calfuqueo.
The 13th Art Biennale Leandre Cristòfol focuses on the processes of resource extraction: on its implications, its contestations and its alternatives. With a prominent presence of Latin American artists, the exhibition responds to ecosocial crises with works that offer an antidote to the utilitarian vision of nature. The projects alert us to the consequences of a development based on intensive extraction and the commodification of resources in the service of unlimited growth and excessive consumption. Based on situated, critical and affirmative methodologies, the works situate life at the centre of ethical, political and economic issues; they reconsider the ways of valorising human and non-human life, and promote practices based on the common well-being.
Extractivism is a mode of production based on the privatization, extraction and commercialization of natural resources. This dynamic originates in European colonization, and in the exploitation of goods, bodies and knowledge this process entails. Today, extractivism is the operating logic of neoliberal capitalism, and is practiced by companies and governments everywhere. The argument that legitimizes extractivism is that it generates jobs and contributes to economic growth. However, it has profound impacts on people and ecosystems: it generates social inequalities and territorial conflicts; it contributes to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution; it produces large amounts of waste, and it strips local communities of their resources and territories.
Source: https://www.lapanera.cat/en/programming/expositions/extractivismes-13a-biennal-d2019art-leandre-cristofol
22.02.2025 — 25.05.2025
Bárbara Fluxá, Carolina Caycedo, Colectivo Cambalache (Carolina Caycedo, Alonso Gil and Federico Guzmán), Estampa (Roc Albalat, Pau Artigas, Marcel Pié, Marc Padró and Daniel Pitarch), FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francîcco Gayardo), Gabriela Bettini, Ignacio Acosta, Joana Moll, Left Hand Rotation, Marilyn Boror Bor, Marina Planas, Paula Bruna, Raúl Silva, Rosell Meseguer, Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, Seba Calfuqueo.
The 13th Art Biennale Leandre Cristòfol focuses on the processes of resource extraction: on its implications, its contestations and its alternatives. With a prominent presence of Latin American artists, the exhibition responds to ecosocial crises with works that offer an antidote to the utilitarian vision of nature. The projects alert us to the consequences of a development based on intensive extraction and the commodification of resources in the service of unlimited growth and excessive consumption. Based on situated, critical and affirmative methodologies, the works situate life at the centre of ethical, political and economic issues; they reconsider the ways of valorising human and non-human life, and promote practices based on the common well-being.
Extractivism is a mode of production based on the privatization, extraction and commercialization of natural resources. This dynamic originates in European colonization, and in the exploitation of goods, bodies and knowledge this process entails. Today, extractivism is the operating logic of neoliberal capitalism, and is practiced by companies and governments everywhere. The argument that legitimizes extractivism is that it generates jobs and contributes to economic growth. However, it has profound impacts on people and ecosystems: it generates social inequalities and territorial conflicts; it contributes to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution; it produces large amounts of waste, and it strips local communities of their resources and territories.
Source: https://www.lapanera.cat/en/programming/expositions/extractivismes-13a-biennal-d2019art-leandre-cristofol