Expanded Nature

“Today, as the pandemic context makes us return to domestic spaces and rethink our individual and collective existence, Expanded Nature invites us to open a dialogue and debate about what we understand by natural heritage, how we relate to its constant changes, how we give it value, we preserve and archive something as dynamic as the environment”, says Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel, Director of Centro Cultural La Moneda.

Maya Errázuriz, Art and Publications Manager at Fundación Mar Adentro and one of the curators of the exhibition, “the research we have developed over these two years together with Carlo Rizzo seeks precisely to question that western distinction that is made between ‘nature ‘and’ culture ‘. We find it interesting to question nature in spaces where they are not usually presented, such as cultural centers or art museums, for this reason we appreciate the opportunity that CCLM has given us to present more comprehensive reflections on the human-nature relationship”.

For his part, Carlo Rizzo, co-curator of the exhibition, mentions that “we should not be less ambitious than trying to revolutionize the traditional paradigms of “exhibiting” nature. This exhibition honors the complexity of planetary ecosystems by revealing their history through multiple layers and the artists who exhibit in it find meaning in the complex connections that make us nature, rather than simply observers of it.

Expanded Nature probes into which aspects are visible and which have been made invisible in the cultural construction of what we understand by nature. At the same time that it rescues knowledge such as agroecology, the use of medicinal plants and beliefs linked to the natural heritage. An exhibition by Centro Cultural La Moneda together with Fundación Mar Adentro, which has the collaboration of Fundación Biodiversidad Alimentaria, Fundación Fungi and Geocom.