Isadora Romero: Smoke Seed Root
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exhibition
When Isadora Romero discovered that her great-grandmother and grandfather were seed guardians, she wondered if she had a need in her blood to tell stories about agrobiodiversity. Over the last 20 years, 75% of seed varieties have disappeared worldwide. Romero's visual research focuses on how the loss of ancestral memory and indigenous knowledge—resulting from colonization, forced displacement, and racism—leads to the disappearance of seeds at an alarming rate.
Moving through multiple regions of Latin America, Romero examines this crisis with depth and precision. In Paraguay, she observes how women come together to counter the agro-industry that limits production for local consumption, and the unequal land distribution these companies benefit from. In Mexico, she explores the cultural significance of food and how the preservation of domesticated plants can be determined by their relationship with the human species. In Ecuador, she seeks to understand the dual approach to conservation—the indigenous and the conventional scientific—recognizing the investment of both communities in similar goals but also the lack of dialogue between them. Her own family's story in Colombia and their contribution to the preservation of potato seeds becomes the catalyst and climax of the project's ethics.
Chapters extracted from this exhibition offer another way to approach environmental issues—through the prism of possibility, rather than catastrophic consequences. Each of them prioritizes a form of resistance: whether it's women organizing against monoculture or people for whom inherited knowledge systems are guiding forces. By turning to the past and those who remain connected to the land, Fume, Root, Seed recalibrates our approach to conversations about conservation.
Where does it take place?
Neumünster Abbey
neimënster
Rue Münster
Luxembourg
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