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Join us for a lively morning breakfast to celebrate the opening of Asunción Molinos Gordo’s first retrospective exhibition in West Asia, The Peasant, the Scholar and the Engineer. We will gather with the artist to reflect on the show’s explorations of farming communities, food systems, and traditional agricultural knowledge, extending from Egypt and the Arab world to engage with the shared Muslim and Arab heritage of the artist’s native Spain.
Asunción Molinos Gordo (b. 1979) is a research-based artist strongly influenced by anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. Her practice questions the definition of innovation in contemporary mainstream discourses, working to generate a less urban-centric way of understanding progress. She has produced work reflecting on land use, nomad architecture, farmer strikes, territorial bureaucracy, transformation of rural labour, biotechnology and global food trade. Molinos Gordo won the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2015 with her project WAM (World Agriculture Museum) and represented Spain at the 13th Havana Biennial in 2019. She obtained her BFA from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she also pursued her Master’s in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice. She is currently studying Anthropology and Ethnography at UNED (Spain).
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