Simbiosis en obras (semilla y sociedad)

The work of Colombian artist Alicia Barney challenges the catastrophic environmental impact of certain human activities since the early 1980s. Pioneering works such as Yumbo (1980) and Rio Cauca (1980-81), for example, draw on a variety of aesthetic and scientific strategies to investigate air and water pollution levels in locations near the city of Cali and the Cauca river valley. In El Ecológico (1981-82), meanwhile, the artist’s environmentalist discourse is combined with a critique of patriarchal society, late capitalism and their devastating consequences, among other issues.