Lucía Batalla Tuero
31 July 2024 –
Lucía Batalla Tuero (Gijón, 2000) graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2018 – 2022). She has recently completed the Master in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture coordinated by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the UCM and the UAM (2022 – 2023).
His recent production and lines of research reflect on the idea of ‘nature’, with special attention to the blurring of the natural/artificial categories. His interests resonate with issues such as speculative fabulation, the problematisation of the nature / culture binomial, the recognition of the agency of the non-human and the displacement of anthropocentrism.
Project in residence
Autómatas vegetales
Autómatas Vegetales starts from this idea to explore and problematise how we relate to the ‘natural’, and more specifically, to plants. Although we humans do not usually perceive it with the naked eye, the truth is that all plants move.
During the residency at LABoral, a series of mechanisms or artefacts will be built to exaggerate the rhythms of these beings. Basically, different ‘plant machines’ that fictionalise or amplify before our gaze the movements of plants, such as tropisms and nastias.
This poetic approach to plants is perhaps intended as a – modest – wake-up call to the so-called ‘plant-blindness’, i.e. the bias by which we systematically ignore the presence of plants. Special attention will be paid to those species considered less beautiful or noble, such as weeds or wild flora growing spontaneously in the margins.
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Project selected in the 1st Call for Artistic Residencies 2024.
