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Materials
Date
2023
Experiments
Algae, animal gelatin, raw earth, plaster, straw.
Variable dimensions.
Sarah Ahmed, a lesbian activist of Pakistani origin, in her book Vivir una vida feminista (Ed. Caja Negra - 2021), speaks of "feminist bricks" as the new materials through which she builds her house, her intellectual home. I found the analogy very clever: the brick is the basic element of construction. Today we are trying to compose new narratives: which bricks are we going to use and with which materials? The brick also underlines the artisanal and progressive side of construction: should the new structures that are going to support us be built outside the technological and industrial speed of current capitalism?
I experimented with the manufacture of bioplastics.
While traveling through Bolivia, I noticed that many houses are built with raw earth bricks: it is the inhabitants themselves who build their houses with local resources. I also experimented with the use of raw earth, or ADOBE in Bolivia, with clayey soils from construction sites in the Ile de France.
