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Title: 
Miriam Isasi. Resina, brea y glicerina (Resin, tar and glycerine) [exhibition]
Programme: 
Babestu. Contemporary creation support, 2020-2021
Date: 
27-05-2021 / 26-09-2021
Place: 
Mediateka Galeria
Artist(s): 
Isasi, Miriam (1981- )
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Exhibition
Tags: 
Contemporary art
Sculpture
Ethnobotany
Summary: 
Resina, brea y glicerina (Resin, tar and glycerine), a research linked to landscape with a view to bringing us into contact with ethnic-botany via a plastic language as a natural comprehension concept of our context.
The artist explains how this began with the use of medicinal plants and their immunological systems, "the search begins in conifer forests, using rock resin as the guiding thread throughout the project development. Distillates, tinctures and ointments take on a sculptural format via materials such as glycerine, turpentine, resins or tar. Nomenclatures and agglutinants as the search and formalisation method ".
Throughout the development process, Miriam Isasi has researched the links between plants, folk medicine, popular culture, and tradition in relation to natural resources, use of different plants, likewise a more technical analysis of the same from a botanic point of view.
Related activities: 
AZzabalik. Encuentro en torno a la creación artística (2021)
Miriam Isasi. Resina, brea y glicerina
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