Núria Rovira Terradas
After it spins its cocoon, the silkworm is killed in boiling water to unwind the silk thread and weaved it again to cover human bodies. The material of silk deeply entangles humans and silkworms in thousands of years of silk farming that have caused evolutionary changes to the Bombyx Mori species. This entanglement between the human and the non-human is a fragment of the Anthropocene, the era in which every corner of our planet has been damaged by humans.
Núria Rovira’s work is an invitation to notice these entanglements of the Anthropocene through the particular case of silkworms. With her BioArt practice, Núria has transformed her studio into a lab hybrid in which she has grown 3 colonies of silkworms. From this direct interaction with living organisms, the artist creates installations that combine video, live performance and sound. Núria’s artwork involves the living, which means it also involves the dying. As a result, her art is ephemeral, fragile and unpredictable. It plays with temporalities of other life forms and brings them into our context. In the encounter with the artwork, the viewer experiences the uncanny realization of its deep entanglement with the non-human in the layering of living bodies, the material of silk and the artist’s experience of her interaction with the living organisms.
Click on the link below to see the silkworms live. This is a real time video streamed from the artist's studio. Come see a moment of the silkworm's existance that will never repeat itlsef. You are also welcome to come back in a few days and see what has changed; maybe the silkwomrs are spinning cocoons or maybe they have become moths. Go find out.
Click the link below to go visit the virtual installation and soundscape
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