Emilia González LG in exhibition featuring the artwork of five UK-based artists at Mucciaccia Gallery, Dering Street.
Primordial Soups
July 19th – September 21st, 2024
At Mucciaccia Gallery, curated by LATAMesa
21 Dering St. W1S 1AL
PV Thursday, July 18th 6 – 8 pm
LATAMesa is delighted to present Primordial Soups, a group exhibition featuring the artwork of five UK-based artists: Emilia González, Hannah Lees, Camilo Parra, Seán Savage Ferrari and Tessa Silva taking place at Mucciaccia Gallery. This exhibition seeks to enrich the dialogue between British and Latin identities, delving into the personal and ecological narratives embedded in the unseen and unsung matter of our world.
Primordial soup is the term given to the aqueous solution where inorganic and organic compounds—some delivered by meteorites—collided and mingled in Earth’s early waters 3.7 to 4.0 billion years ago. This rich, ancient broth established the elemental dance from which all living systems evolved.
Matter, in all its ever-changing transformations, bears silent witness to the passage of time. These compounds have seen the rise and fall of civilisations, the ebb and flow of natural forces, and the intimate moments of human life. Whether engaging with organic, inorganic, industrial, or found objects, the exhibiting artists transform materials into conduits and vessels for narratives that bridge the human and non-human worlds. They reshape and redefine human and natural vestiges by overlapping personal cartographies with the transformations on the landscape. Through their work, the artists reveal the interconnections between nature, body, memory and territory, and the enduring dialogues they maintain with the past while shaping our present.
Drawing on Donna Haraway’s concept of “making-with,” which emphasises the collaborative processes of life in an intricate ecological network, and Anna Tsing’s notion of landscapes as dynamic assemblages that radically de-center human hubris, Primordial Soups invites us to ponder: What narratives emerge when we consider the collaborative, symbiotic, and interdependent nature of existence? It encourages us to reevaluate our place in the world,
contemplating how our stories, cultures, and identities are intertwined with the landscapes we share.
As Primordial Soups traces the stratified stories beneath this boiling pot that is our world —chaotic and reactive like said prebiotic waters—we uncover the pulse of a collective mix. After all, are we not ingredients in an ancient, ever-evolving soup, rather than lone cooks? How are we shaping the flavours of our shared earthly existence?