"Desemboscant" by Martí Boada at the ICTA-UAB

Martí Boada, lecturer at the Department of Geography of the UAB and researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), has taken his first steps in the plastic arts, with a desire of nudity, not only the roots of his passion for the colour green, but also his views on our surroundings, the starting and focal point of this exhibit.

"My work is the result of many years of socio-ecological observation and it is also a way to develop my research into nature through art. In fact, the first thing I thought before finishing it was that it would not be about scientific evidence but about making it accessible to the maximum people possible”, Boada explains. The exhibit goes by the principle that "well-informed people always multiply, uninformed people always stay the same".

The exhibit aims to stimulate people's curiosity in ecology, and includes passing through the translation of a forest, without breaking through it, but by bifurcating and extending what is organic, despite having limitations in the format. The physical dimension of the works on display reveal a great architect, an invisible creator: "it is the work of time, it is slow in the biology of the piece; my work is the art of time", describes Martí Boada.

“Desemboscant” is a wonderful showcase of natural phenomena, which sends out signals barely perceived by people who, although unaware of it, form part of a changing, constantly evolving and totally overwhelming environment. For Martí Boada, "nature is fantastic, we do not need to be researchers or amateurs to make it ours. Because we live in it. We can recognise ourselves as forming part of this creation, because we are nature".