Residency Maria Lucia Cruz Correia

Everything that lives and cohabits on earth is composed by mechanisms of living processes- animist encounter on reading the traces of life, growth and infiltration. The research addresses the space as a living organism, a body. It suspends, a poetic and symbolic interference that proposes the illness of the space as a metaphor, a reveal of spatial malfunctions, disabilities, and failures of its metabolism. The transformation on the space involves a methodology, trying to understand how organisms grow in common grounds of invasion, infiltration, catastrophe and collapse. The relation between humanity and nature is presentend as a parasitism and a collective change in any direction it grows. The human being is etended as a active absorber, a spreading cancer while the environment is entended as the empowerd patient, host.

The construction of a habitat, is presented as a iconic symbol of home and common ground for familiar happenings in society. It reveals an organic appropriation of the space: a scenario of changes within the ultimate revenge from nature towards humanity. The interfearance of termites is essential for the degradation process of the house: by eating the wood the structure will collapse. The presence, participation and performance of human, is presentend by its daily life and the adaptation along the changes that might happen until the end of the collapsing process. The surrounding reality is presented as the main entrance for a social sculpture. Through an ontological system, based on rethinking the immanent world of living beings, that invade alter and affect its own trajectory. A survival, a reconstruction of what is lost, in order to recover what is present. A given tool, an ideological filter of reality, defined by the natural cicle of nature processes. A socio-political re-construction of “nature to nature”.