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PAULA BRUNA

Institute for Postnatural Studies, activity: PAULA BRUNA (hero landscape)

GENERAL INFO

LOCATION

Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid

DATE

Spring 2025

TYPOLOGY

Residency - National

ARTIST

Paula Bruna - Barcelona, Spain

SOFOCO: NATIONAL RESIDENCY

A six-week residency in Madrid (April–May 2025) for artists, journalists, researchers, or cultural agents based in Spain. The program explored the political and material implications of heat and global warming, presenting heat as a political subject in today's ecological debate. The residency supported work in writing, video, photo reportages, infographics, zines, interactive guides, radio, podcasts, social practices, pedagogy, or artistic mediation.

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Embolismo por Soleá, Vynil. 2024

Paula Bruna’s project ‘Embolismo por soleá’, began with the study of vegetal embolism—the ultrasonic sound emitted by plants under drought stress—Paula interprets these acoustic recordings as a vegetal cante jondo, a deep lament that emerges from the innermost being of the plants, following a rhythm without compás (traditional flamenco meter). She works with ultrasound recordings from Iberian plants, exploring the sonority of forests, as well as the different choreographies that stem from the musicality of forests and plants’ internal drought.

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Cruel de Tucuman, 2021

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Embolismo por Soleá, Sound Recordings

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Axial cross-sections of plant sample showing embolism. Source: Plant Methods

ARTIST BIO

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    PAULA BRUNA

    Paula Bruna (Barcelona, 1978) is a Spanish artist and environmentalist. Both professions have converged in her artistic projects, in which she works on alternative narratives to the Anthropocene from non-human points of view, through a combination of science facts, speculative fiction and artistic practices. Her hypothesis is that exploring points of view other than the actual anthropocentrism has significant effects on ecological awareness and opens up the range of possible ways of cohabitation. Paula holds a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona with a thesis on art and political ecology. She shares her research and artwork in national and international congresses, publications, workshops, artistic events and exhibitions. Her artistic research has been awarded with several Catalan grants. She has stayed at national and international artist residencies, with particular interest in those with ecological approaches.

CREDITS

NATIONAL JURY

ISLA - Ideario de Sostenibilidad, Laboratorio de Arte

SUPPORTED BY

City of Madrid - Government of Area for Tourism, Culture and Sports

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