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From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
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Yield
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantDiana Scherer
- VenueThe Three Chimneys
Yield, 2024 © Diana Scherer. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev
At the heart of the German artist Diana Scherer’s work is what she refers to as a “collaboration with nature”. Fascinated by the root systems of plants, Scherer devised a bespoke methodology whereby networks of roots grow into patterns that she designs, forming grownfabrics that resemble textiles. For Manifesta 15, Scherer designed a pattern that combines the shape of a spine, plant cell structures and elements from a chintz fabric that was manufactured in Barcelona. Spines and bones were favoured motifs of the Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudí, whose chief patron was Joan Güell i Ferrer – a tycoon who made a fortune thanks to the Cuban slave trade, which he used to help build Barcelona’s textile industry. Scherer’s work simultaneously cites the local legacy of textile manufacturing while querying the roots of the metropolis’ wealth. At the same time, Scherer’s work makes a decisive step towards realising a utopian partnership – of humankind co-creating with nature, contrasting the concrete Three Chimneys.
2024
Roots, soil, fabric, seeds, grass
1400 × 300 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Commissioned by Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana
Supported by Mondriaan Fund and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Spain
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