Meadow · Sea · Forest
Resilient is a tribute to the people who fight against climate change. The series brings together three wearable sculptures made with natural materials. Each one speaks about a different environmental conflict and denounces how human actions have pushed the planet into a stressed state.
Wild teasel (Dipsacus fullonum), carlina (Carlina acaulis) and miraguano (Araujia sericifera), three plants gathered from the wild. Carlina was brought close to extinction by massive harvesting, and some countries now protect it by law: only the parts that fall off naturally are gathered, and those are the pieces you see in the mask. Miraguano was introduced in the 19th century as an ornamental plant and for textile filling, and has become invasive. Wild teasel, exported to Argentina for wool carding, is now an invasive weed there too.
Nacra (Pinna nobilis), spider crab (Maja squinado), oysters and red coral, all from the Mediterranean. The red coral was extracted in the 1970s at Cap de Creus, from the remains collected by a friend's father: pieces the coral pickers considered too small to sell. Coral grows only 3 to 5 mm a year, and today colonies rarely reach even those sizes. The nacra belonged to my grandmother. It is the largest mollusc in the Mediterranean, and a pathogen has killed more than 90% of its population in the last three years. I faced many dilemmas using the coral, and chose to use it precisely to denounce its situation.
Wild rose thorns, spruce branches and brooms. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world's land, but areas the size of Panama are lost every year. Deforestation destroys the habitat of millions of species and reduces the trees that absorb the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.