How can art respond to ecological challenges? Jorge Menna Barreto relates how his “stomach sculpture” protects the Amazon rainforest, and video artist Bo Zheng discusses whether we can have sex with plants. We are joined by curator Margarida Mendes. Presenter Vid Simoniti. 

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Works featured

Jorge Menna Barreto
Il Restauro (2016)
https://www.visibleproject.org/blog/project/restauro-environmental-sculpture-32a-bienal-of-so-paulo-brazil/

Bo Zheng
Pteridophilia (2016)
http://zhengbo.org/2018_PP3.html

commentator Margarida Mendes