Deep into the landscape

What separates a concrete patio from an abundant agroforestry? To enter the land you need, first of all, to know that one can become the other. Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo B. Camacho’s proposal is to raise slabs and chop the tar, sift gravel, add organic matter, prepare solid and liquid compounds, return the missing micro-organisms and sow tomorrow.

In this, it is necessary to think about how what we eat today imposes itself on the landscape to come. So let’s taste a prosperous future with recipes based on acorns and other foods from Landra, an agro-forest emerging from an oak grove.

Meanwhile, life takes its own course as the relentless ecological succession towards the millenary forest advances. Cycles of increasing abundance accumulate and there goes the landscape, being what it can, transformed by our actions, but mainly informed by what is unseen and lives right under our feet.

“A Fundo na Paisagem” has the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, an artistic residence at the Coliseu do Porto and a show at the new Mercado do Bolhão from September 19.

Photography:  Dinis Santos