
Rotten architecture
Public intervention. A Coruña. 2022
14 inkjet on paper, variable dimensions
7 white oil paint, inkjet on paper. 40x30cm
The objective of this work is to symbolically repair the damage that the human being exerts on nature because of the consumerist and capitalist society in which we find ourselves. In this way, this work aims to reflect on the relationship between art and nature within contemporary artistic practices.
From the investigations exposed in the article published by the engineers C. Martuscelli. C. Soares, A. Camoes and N. Lima, in which the use of fungi is defended as an ideal material to repair reinforced concrete in architectural infrastructures, natural fungi are used as artistic material this intervention. To carry out this work, casting techniques have been used to record the shape and size of fungi that were growing attached to an elm tree in an urban park on the outskirts of London. From the transformation of the matter that characterizes the fungus itself, a material is sought for its reproduction with which it maintains a relationship at a procedural level. Thus, an ephemeral natural element, such as mushrooms that grow on trees, is transformed into a non-perishable element, thus playing with the fragile-durable duality.
To defend the restorative potential of fungi, four public artistic interventions have been carried out in various architectural infrastructures. The different locations are around the ruins of the Varilongo mine, in Santa Comba (A Coruña). From a poetic point of view, the mushrooms reproduced in ceramics have been placed in the cracks in the walls of the mine remains, which are accompanied by photographic documentation, drawings and maps for their exhibition.





