Maria Thereza Alves has an exhibition in Seville until 31 May 2015 at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC). The Long Road to Xico (1991-2014) is a retrospective of the artist’s work midway through her career, with a selection of 17 pieces created since 1991 that explore the need to develop a new awareness of and respect for nature, and the urgency of rewriting colonial history.

A Brazilian artist currently working in Rome (Italy), she studies the links between globalisation and biodiversity in a very unique way. In her projects “Seeds of Change” and “Wake”, like an archaeologist-anthropologist, she studied the plants found in travellers’ clothing and the ballast of merchant ships. This historical research allowed her to map the development of globalisation. She sees her art as research into life: working on things that are still unknown means heading down an unpredictable path. Cofounder of the Brazilian Partido Verdo (green party) in São Paulo, Maria Thereza Alves works closely alongside local Indian populations.

Maria Theresa Alves is an artist selected in dOCUMENTA(13). She accepts to participe to the Nature Addicts Fund’s Travelling Academy, as a « lead artist ». Interview.