Los otros residentes
Paula Bruna and Silvia Renda
2022 – Artist’s book10 numbered copies
46 pages | Size: 9 x 14 cm
8 handmade envelopes with field record cards
Digital printing | Metallic spiral binding | Paper: Freelife Vellum, Colorplan rust
The book narrates the soliloquy of a researcher in residence in a huge rural house in Portugal who tries to decipher the non-human world during some encounters with the “others”, the only “residents” of the place. Through stories extracted from a field diary and fragments of records, between the scientific, the speculative and the poetic, the book reconstructs the thread of Paula’s artistic process: she ventures into an impossible classification and, finally, she will end up confronting her own limit.
Parallel to the growth time of a plant, there are encounters and misunderstandings with more than a dozen species (ants, bats, spiders, snakes, mint plants, crickets…). These discoveries end with a final story, called “Pareidolia”, where anthropomorphic roots reveal the bias of the human gaze.
It’s part of the research on artistic processes of Radial Radiant collective, in collaboration with Erica Volpini, which salvaged discarded material (stories, notes, audios, videos, and photographs) for a new creation beyond documentation.
Collections:
2024 – MACBA archive (Centre d’Estudis i Documentació, Barcelona).
Exhibited at:
2023 – Reimaginados, exhibition at Ectopia Lab – Lisbon (PT)
2023 – Ecos , exhibition at the FBAUL gallery in Lisbon (PT)
2022 – Arts Libris, Mercat de Sant Antoni, Barcelona (ES)
– Texts and unpublished images by Paula Bruna
– Concept: Silvia Renda and Paula Bruna
– Design: Silvia Renda
– Handmade envelopes: Aurora Muñoz
