Ruderalis. Herbae Malae, Ximo Bereneguer

29/10 - 10/11

The term ruderal (from the Latin ruderalis) refers to resilient flora that thrives in environments altered by human activity, 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 or invasive plants.

This project gathers plants, flowers, roots, seeds, and other forms of vegetation that have culturally acquired connotations associated with dissidence: dangerous, foreign, non-productive... They have also been historically linked to rituals of encounters between alterities—magic, covens, alchemy, love spells, bacchanals, journeys...

In this case, Montjuïc Mountain in Barcelona serves as the main site of research. Generally, the peripheral or marginal areas of the city become the places where encounters displaced from the public sphere or beyond control take place. In Barcelona, Montjuïc represents that suspended landscape at night, where activities take advantage of darkness and the absence of gazes to unfold autonomously, asserting their own identity.

Ruderalis is a gathering of all these customs, rituals, and traditions that naturally emerge within dissidence, playing with the metaphor of the plants themselves that grow spontaneously. When symbolically relocated into the gallery space, they acquire the condition of narrative objects—altars, archives, or relics of cultural value—that foster uncertainty and distance from the hegemonic narrative.

Ruderalis. Herbae Malae, Ximo Bereneguer

29/10 - 10/11

The term ruderal (from the Latin ruderalis) refers to resilient flora that thrives in environments altered by human activity, 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 or invasive plants.

This project gathers plants, flowers, roots, seeds, and other forms of vegetation that have culturally acquired connotations associated with dissidence: dangerous, foreign, non-productive... They have also been historically linked to rituals of encounters between alterities—magic, covens, alchemy, love spells, bacchanals, journeys...

In this case, Montjuïc Mountain in Barcelona serves as the main site of research. Generally, the peripheral or marginal areas of the city become the places where encounters displaced from the public sphere or beyond control take place. In Barcelona, Montjuïc represents that suspended landscape at night, where activities take advantage of darkness and the absence of gazes to unfold autonomously, asserting their own identity.

Ruderalis is a gathering of all these customs, rituals, and traditions that naturally emerge within dissidence, playing with the metaphor of the plants themselves that grow spontaneously. When symbolically relocated into the gallery space, they acquire the condition of narrative objects—altars, archives, or relics of cultural value—that foster uncertainty and distance from the hegemonic narrative.