Ecosystem: The Wetland of my Roots (2024)
with Kevin Bellò

Dandelion, nasturtium, three-cornered leek, plantago, wild dill, chive, magnolia, fig leaf, pine, chickpea, cabbage, and other plant collaborators. Marbles borrowed from NovoNovo.

Over the table of ‘Edible ecosystem: the wetland of my roots’, Inês and Kevin display an edible, compostable and reusable collection of intimate details and visual poems, made with foraged Spring plants gathered on the swamps near Inês’s house in north Portugal. Opening discussions on local food systems, wetland disappearance, overlooked ecosystems and the position of humans and more-than-humans in a shared world, we will be nourished by anti-extractivism. Leftover skins, peels and other non-edibles are here transformed into objects in a collective memory of food yet to be eaten. Within this work, we re-envision the human as a permeable system, an interactive kin-stellation in constant regeneration with and within its landscape, belonging via gathering, eating and digesting.

In (Gentler) Futures Festival - eco-design festival by BY THE END OF MAY, Lisboa (PT), curated by Davide Onestini.

Photographs by Margarida Alexandre and Bernardo Condeixa.