Date: 17- 18 June
Location: Impulse - House for Intellectual Innovation and Creativity (Adenauerallee 131. 53113 Bonn)
Art Poster
Title: Memorias del Suelo (Memories of the Soil)
Mixed collage technique.
Artwork design and production: M. Cecilia Bogado
Cecilia graduated as an industrial designer at FAyD - UNaM in Oberá, province of Misiones. She works in public university education and is an independent professional in the field of design, management and research. Occasionally she makes artistic creations, which allow her to continue playing.
MEMORIES OF THE SOIL
BS Argentina – April 2025
The work focuses on an attempt to capture the rhythm and movement of life, in diversity and connection. The circular core is like an organic pulse, a heart, a cell, a navel of the world, an open fruit, and, at the same time, a seed. This node is composed of hydrographic basin maps of the Global South. It is alive: it beats and disperses its vital energy, the footprints are not placed in a hierarchical way, but intertwine, flow, and dialogue in multiple trajectories and sizes. This reflects a relational cosmovision, where the human is not at the center, but as one species among many.
The technique used is digital collage: layers upon layers, meaning upon meaning. The textured vegetal background is composed of several stories; between mountains, rivers, stones, and fossilized leaves, there is a play between the tactile and the visual. We feel the wet ground, registering everything that leaves a mark as we pass. It is a kind of sensory map of the Amazonian-Andean world: a moving network of diverse beings. Each print, textured in an engraved style, maintains its proportion and autonomy, but dialogues with the others.
The work celebrates the beauty of vital interactions, offering a change in the relational vision, profoundly rethinking how we inhabit. It proposes a new affective map of the inter-species bond that we sustain from our most valuable and, at the same time, most threatened resource: the water.
This is a proposal for a sensitive cartography of territories with memory and ancestral knowledge. My desire as a cultural operator for this complex present is not only to be able to “do” but to challenge myself to achieve a decolonial visual practice that seeks to represent interspecies relations without anthropocentric hierarchies.