Talk by alfonso borragán and Filipa Rocha Nunes

AiR 351, Sept 23, 4pm

Public session

Litofagos is a project series about the ingestion of stones and their biological inscription in the human body. With the infiltration of exogenous bodies we ingest their information, transcribing and transforming the objects and the way in which they are worshipped. The project develops through a series of collective actions, installations, video essays and publications.

Litofagos reflects on different processes of ingestion, as well as on the biological, cultural and historical transformations that affect the objects consumed and those who consume them. It conceives the mouth as a mediating device between exterior and interior – a site of nurture, breath, aggression, appetite, language and even knowledge. The act of ingesting redraws the borders between subject and thing, biological and non-biological matter, and bonds of the communal body, re-signifying the collective construction of relationships between bodies.

In this final presentation, borragán talks with writer and curator Filipa da Rocha Nunes, who is also author of the book “couro fresco”, published in April 2023. Cartography, word repetition, and variations in light are essential elements in her literary research. She graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon in 2016 and holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Management from the International University of Catalonia, a program she completed in 2019 in Barcelona.