Gallery 209

The exhibition devotes considerable space to the countless ways of working with soil in its various states and forms—such as mud, sand, sawdust, and weeds—as well as experimental, even spurious mixtures combining natural elements and industrial waste, processes of decay or alteration of sculptures in close contact with the earth. Collaborative dynamics emerge in all of these processes, where decisions arise less from artistic will than from the interaction between materials, spaces, and moments. In some cases, these production and research processes are inextricably linked to our landscape, occurring very close to the Museum, such as the use of resources like mud and clay from the forests of Biscay and the Nervión estuary, or the collaboration with species that activate the nearby ecosystem. These practices resonate with those of indigenous communities across the world. Artistic practice is, for them, the way in which they continuously renew their
emotional and material ties to the earth.