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Title: 
Un helado con sabor sendero
Programme: 
Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms
Date: 
30-05-2023 / 03-06-2023
Place: 
Lantegia, BAT Espazioa
Artist(s): 
Jiménez Landa, Fermín
Curator(s): 
Casado, Rosa
López, Maider (1975- )
Noël, Stéphane
Pérez, Fernando
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Exhibition
Tags: 
Art installations
Biology
Contemporary art
Exhibition
Summary: 

Fermín Jiménez Landa has created the Un helado sabor sendero project for Prototipoak, based on the relationship between silphium and fennel.
As valuable as gold, the silphium plant was treasured since the beginning of classical antiquity as a seasoning, perfume, aphrodisiac and medicine. This plant disappeared two thousand years ago without a trace, forever losing a scent and becoming the first species in recorded history to be purposely brought into extinction by mankind.
In contemporary botany, research into various plants has been undertaken looking for species which could be the silphium, as the plant could have survived and could be hidden in plain sight. This artistic project focuses in the wild fennel, with its bastardised condition, a weed that inhabits what Gilles Clement called the “third landscape”, the sides of the roads, those borderline places resulting from the absence of any human decision and chance, outside of human order.

Related activities: 
Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms (2023)
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