TY  - THES
A1  - Pacheco Alvim, Sarah
T1  - Falsa Seringueira: Rubber Trees and the Materiality of the Unseen
N2  - The theme of this project is the colonial history of the natural rubber industry. It focuses on two species of tropical plants: Ficus elastica and Hevea brasiliensis. Geographically their native habitat is very distant from each other, but they connect by European influence through the exploitation of latex.

The many forms and outcomes from this work manifest the attempt of the artist to create an association between a common household plant, the origin of its name, and the source of rubber. As a ghostly connective tissue, the latex surrounds reconstructed history, old prints, live plants, and drawings, accepting the material's capacity to both erase and preserve the past.
KW  - Kautschuk
KW  - Gummi
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Kunst
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - art installation
KW  - colonialism
KW  - history
KW  - natural latex
KW  - rubber industry
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4846
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230105-48467
ER  -