"Fenix Forest"
Section MS13, Maria Montero Sierra
Keywords: sculpture, environment, material
This artwork explores how nature continuously reinvents itself and returns to its origins, even after the environmental catastrophes that affect it.
The main focus is the wildfires that have occurred in Galicia, a region in Spain that has suffered recurrent forest fires in recent years. These fires, caused by both climate change and human intervention, have devastated one of Galicia’s most valuable natural resources: its forests.
After such events, this piece reflects on how the landscape transforms and how new forms of life grow within the remains of what was once a forest full of life, now reduced to blackened trees and ashes. Rather than seeing the burned forest as a symbol of loss, I see it as a living laboratory of adaptation, where ashes become fertile ground. In Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World, I found resources and a valuable starting point for understanding how life forms persist and reinvent themselves beyond human and capitalist structures.