Ruderalis. Herbae Malae, Ximo Bereneguer

29/10 - 10/11

The term ruderal (from the Latin ruderalis) refers to resilient flora in environments modified by humans, capable of spreading easily, producing many seeds and adapting to diverse conditions. In botany, the term ruderalis is used to designate species commonly known as weeds.

This project brings together plants, flowers, roots, seeds and other vegetation which, culturally, have acquired connotations associated with dissent: dangerous, foreign, unproductive, invasive... They have also been historically linked to rituals of encounters between otherness: magic, covens, alchemy, love spells, bacchanals, journeys...

These botanical traces appear in memories or nearby landscapes. In this case, Montjuïc mountain in Barcelona is the setting on which the research focuses. Generally, spaces adjacent to or outside the central core of the city are the place where encounters displaced from public space or outside control occur. Montjuïc is, in the case of Barcelona, that place suspended in the night whose activities take advantage of the darkness and the absence of prying eyes to develop as a condition of their very existence.

Ruderalis is a collection of all those customs, rituals, and traditions that arise naturally in dissent, playing with the metaphor of the plants themselves that grow there spontaneously. By symbolically moving into the gallery space, they acquire the status of altars, archives or relics whose cultural value is always questioned or displaced from the common narrative.

Ruderalis. Herbae Malae, Ximo Bereneguer

29/10 - 10/11

The term ruderal (from the Latin ruderalis) refers to resilient flora in environments modified by humans, capable of spreading easily, producing many seeds and adapting to diverse conditions. In botany, the term ruderalis is used to designate species commonly known as weeds.

This project brings together plants, flowers, roots, seeds and other vegetation which, culturally, have acquired connotations associated with dissent: dangerous, foreign, unproductive, invasive... They have also been historically linked to rituals of encounters between otherness: magic, covens, alchemy, love spells, bacchanals, journeys...

These botanical traces appear in memories or nearby landscapes. In this case, Montjuïc mountain in Barcelona is the setting on which the research focuses. Generally, spaces adjacent to or outside the central core of the city are the place where encounters displaced from public space or outside control occur. Montjuïc is, in the case of Barcelona, that place suspended in the night whose activities take advantage of the darkness and the absence of prying eyes to develop as a condition of their very existence.

Ruderalis is a collection of all those customs, rituals, and traditions that arise naturally in dissent, playing with the metaphor of the plants themselves that grow there spontaneously. By symbolically moving into the gallery space, they acquire the status of altars, archives or relics whose cultural value is always questioned or displaced from the common narrative.