In her practice, Molinos questions the categories that
define “innovation” in mainstream discourses today, exploring the different
forms of dominance in the intellectual enquire from the urban to the rural.
She employs installation, photography, video, sound
and other media to examine the rural realm driven by a strong desire to
understand the value and complexity of its cultural production, as well as the
burdens that keeps it invisible and marginalized, often disregarded as
folkloric or mythological.
The main focus of her work is contemporary peasantry.
Her understating of the figure of the small or medium farmer is not merely as
food producer but as cultural agent, responsible for both perpetuating traditional
knowledge and for generating new expertise to meet current challenges. She has
produced work reflecting on land usage, nomad architecture, farmers strikes,
bureaucracy on territory, transformation of rural labour, biotechnology and
global food trade.
Asunción won the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2015 with her
project
WAM (
World Agriculture Museum). Her work has been exhibited at venues
including MUSAC (León), CA2M (Madrid) Matadero (Madrid), La Casa Encendida
(Madrid) ARNOLFINI (Bristol), Delfina Foundation (London) The Townhouse Gallery
(Cairo) Darat Al Funun (Amman) among others. Molinos is currently represented
by Travesia Cuatro gallery.
She lives and works between Egypt, Oman and Spain.
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