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Neither spices nor species | Marcela Moraga

 

In 2018, Marcela Moraga participated in the artistic research program “Magallanes 2020” in Punta Arenas, Chile, an initiative coordinated by the Universidad de Magallanes with the Goethe Institut Chile. The artist was invited to realize her own project during her stay in Patagonia, which was supposed to include contacts with on-site research institutions in the fields of ethnobotany, marine biology, archaeology and history as well as with the local community.

Marcela Moraga left Berlin-Moabit, having prepared herself by reading the diaries of the Italian explorer Antonio Pigafetta and other travel reports of historical expeditions to Patagonia. What she actually found on her journey, however, differed significantly from the naturalistic and colonialist descriptions of the 16th-18th centuries. Neither spices nor species documents the artist’s own journey with drawings, photographs and texts. In a playful authentic way, these notes disguise themselves as an old travel diary. The written and drawn sketches cover a wide range of topics, from local myths about the ocean, stray dogs, climate researchers to activist ducks fighting the Coca-Cola corporation. With her tales, Marcela Moraga counteracts imaginative ‘discoverer’ narratives by undermining their structure with irony and subtle humour. She contrasts the idealized natural landscape of Patagonia with new fictions and stories that speak imaginatively about actual realities such as social and ecological collapse, oral traditions, science and boredom at the end of the world.

Neither spices nor species was designed by Martín La Roche and published by Ediciones Popolet, an independent artist’s book publisher in Santiago / Amsterdam / New York.

 

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Weight 0.450 kg
Dimensions 22.7 × 15.7 × 1.7 cm
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About the author

Marcela Moraga studied in Chile and Germany and now lives in Berlin. She works with performance, video and installation, looking at order and movement in public spaces as well as the relationship between culture and nature. In doing so, she focuses on ephemeral, undefined spaces in order to activate relationships there. Moraga also works with textiles, which she sees as woven spaces that can be read as an object, architecture or a two-dimensional image. She has held solo exhibitions in Berlin, Santiago de Chile and Hamburg, and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in France, Germany, Holland, Brazil, Chile, Egypt and South Korea

In 2018, Marcela Moraga participated in the artistic research program “Magallanes 2020” in Punta Arenas, Chile, an initiative coordinated by the Universidad de Magallanes with the Goethe Institut Chile. The artist was invited to realize her own project during her stay in Patagonia, which was supposed to include contacts with on-site research institutions in the fields of ethnobotany, marine biology, archaeology and history as well as with the local community.

Marcela Moraga left Berlin-Moabit, having prepared herself by reading the diaries of the Italian explorer Antonio Pigafetta and other travel reports of historical expeditions to Patagonia. What she actually found on her journey, however, differed significantly from the naturalistic and colonialist descriptions of the 16th-18th centuries. Neither spices nor species documents the artist’s own journey with drawings, photographs and texts. In a playful authentic way, these notes disguise themselves as an old travel diary. The written and drawn sketches cover a wide range of topics, from local myths about the ocean, stray dogs, climate researchers to activist ducks fighting the Coca-Cola corporation. With her tales, Marcela Moraga counteracts imaginative ‘discoverer’ narratives by undermining their structure with irony and subtle humour. She contrasts the idealized natural landscape of Patagonia with new fictions and stories that speak imaginatively about actual realities such as social and ecological collapse, oral traditions, science and boredom at the end of the world.

Neither spices nor species was designed by Martín La Roche and published by Ediciones Popolet, an independent artist’s book publisher in Santiago / Amsterdam / New York.

Technical Specifications

Author: Marcela Moraga

Format: Cuaderno tapa dura, impresión risográfica.

Publisher: Ediciones Popolet

Texts, drawings and photos : Marcela Moraga

Graphic design: Martín La Roche

Dimensions: 22,7 x 15,7 x 1.7 cm closed

Print run: 100 copias

Language: Spanish and English

Collections: –

Year of publication: 2019

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