Margherita Isola: Lucha como un brezo

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Image courtesy of Tangent Projects.

"Lucha como un brezo" is a miscellany of works inspired by the power of plants, understanding "power" as a Spinozian assertion of "what a plant can do."

The exhibition opens up a range of possible scenarios on the power of plants—as a cure and embodiment of Pacha knowledge, as well as a poetical-political resistance device against the capitalization of health.

Margherita was the Cotangent Awarded Artist in Residence in Tangent Projects in the summer 2019, most of the works in this exhibition are as a result of Margherita’s two month studio residency.

During that time, Margherita advanced her work-in-progress, El Revolutionary Herbarium, an ever-expanding compendium which elucidates how forbidden medicinal plants are being made invisible and monopolized by pharmaceutical lobbies. While at Tangent Projects studios, she enriched it with some of the medicinal plants that grow spontaneously in the urban context of Barcelona. Also as a result of the residency, there arose some post-vodou pelvis drawings colonized by feminine plants, and Le Antenate (The Ancestors)—a collaboration with the artist Heriz Bhody Anam—plant-skulls created by combining very contemporary expertise with vestiges of ancestral knowledge.

Brezo (heather) is a medicinal plant originally from Africa and Europe that grows spontaneously and which according to the World Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a plant at risk of extinction.

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