“Box of Ward”

“Box of Ward”, risographs (15 units), 29.7 x 42 cm, 10/10, 2021.

This album includes a sample of different Latin American plants that were used to build the European interior spaces inhabited by homo esthéticus. Since the arrival of the first living specimens on the continent, these have become useful artefacts for the construction of the concept of American exoticism. Desires, repressions, investments and projections centered on another likely to be physically and symbolically emptied of an image opposed to hegemonic Europe.