Between wild plants, food sovereignty and a radically sensual understanding of taste, Argentine visual artist and researcher Natalia Carminati develops practices that turn food, the body and the environment into spaces for critical thought. Halfway between performance, installation and domestic ritual, her work questions contemporary forms of consumption and the power relations embedded in what we eat, smell or cultivate. At Eufònic Terra, she presents “Decolonising Taste”, a gastroperformance built around an edible dress and a wild herb vinaigrette with olive oil. A piece somewhere between collective action and sensory manifesto, inviting audiences to taste textures, smells and plants often pushed out of the food chain, reclaiming weeds as a space of memory, resistance and shared knowledge. She couldn’t make it last year; this year, luckily, she can.
Natalia Carminati
Natalia Carminati (Buenos Aires, 1982) is a visual artist and researcher. Her practice combines critical research into contemporary culture, postcolonial theory, biotechnology and food sovereignty with the creation of multisensory devices that may integrate videogames, installation, painting, audiovisual work, living organisms, food and performance. She has presented work at venues and festivals such as MACBA, Museu Picasso Barcelona, Santa Mònica, Fabra i Coats, Konvent Zero, LOOP Barcelona, GREC Festival and Salmon Festival, among many others, and has undertaken residencies at Fabra i Coats, La Escocesa, Piramidón, BAIR Belgrade and Santa Mònica. Since 2022, she has been a board member of PAAC (Plataforma Assembleària d’Artistes de Catalunya).