Christian Wedel Herrera

Habitable Worlds (2021)

The exhibition “Habitable Worlds” presents what, for the artist Christian Wedel, is to co-create spaces of relationship between human beings and nature. Understanding what surrounds us, its structure, how certain ecosystems behave, translates here to how these creation processes can be replicated from artistic practice.

According to the Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia, plants are the most intense, most radical and most paradigmatic way of being in the world. Everything they touch they transform into life. For the artist, studying nature is not static; Observing their cycles and constant transformations allows us to understand the morphology of these organisms and their systems of relationships.

The interaction with nature, the coexistence with the tropical rain forest and the recovery of objects such as tree bark, corals and vines, among others, allow the recomposition and reinterpretation of these elements in other worlds from what has already been created. The study of living organisms allows obtaining various layers of information and overlapping processes, where these are continuously transformed, consumed and regenerated. This coexistence between species, as well as in Wedel’s work, produces new landscapes, new worlds and a constant search for possibilities.

This exhibition is the second result of the three projects selected for the call “Temporary Production Funds” launched by the Museum of Costa Rican Art in 2020.

María José Chavarría

Curator Museum of Costarrican Art. 2021