Air and different concepts of invisibility are the materials of Joana Quiroga’s project Ferment: from the air around you. Quiroga researches variations of microorganisms by wild fermentation of bread. The purpose of the artwork is to make visible the uniqueness of what we do not see, even though it is all around us.
At the Art Ii Biennial Quiroga produced a sour dough and baked bread for the opening of the Biennial with the community.
”How limited can our vision be about the complexity and power of invisibility, the transformations that make things come to life and how all this reflects the way we care.”
Joana Quiroga is a Brazilian artist who utilizes her philosophy studies to part of her art. In her work, she investigates how different power relations, and their consequent inequalities, can live hidden in our daily lives – ‘’like things normally considered “obvious”, like air, bread, time, water and stomach.’’ Quiroga scrutinizes these things and wants to question the trust in the human and rational capacity to think.
