Fugas/Publico: Evgenia Emets, a artista que aprendeu a ouvir as plantas, 2023, by Alexandra Prado Coelho, in Portuguese
‘Há uma planta que vive em três tempos – no ontem, no hoje e no amanhã. Por
isso, deram-lhe esse nome: yesterday, today and tomorrow. O que é que ela nos
pode contar do que foi ontem e do que será amanhã? O que é que ela nos pode
ensinar sobre hoje?’
Photo: Maria Abranches / Publico/Fugas
Endémico: Evgenia Emets y su obra «Forest Time»: el bosque como un ser con su propio sentido del tiempo, 2023, in Spanish
‘Reconectar nuestra relación con la Tierra puede hacerse de muchas maneras. Una forma es tener un encuentro inmersivo con algún ecosistema de interés, un bosque, por ejemplo. Otra opción puede ser por medio de la experiencia artística que tematice o reflexione en torno a la problemática ambiental. Mejor aún, es unir ambas. De esto se trata el trabajo de la artista Evgenia Emets.’
Photo @daoleg, Jardins Abertos
Eternal Forest in TAP publication: A Few Things We Learned about Art, Ecology and the Commons, 2021
Art, Ecology and the Commons program sought to harness the forest’s togetherness and collective practice to inspire new methodologies. This e-publication stems as much from the research references, conversations, and sister initiatives having guided us through the project, as from the takeaways, propositions, and new questionings prompted by artists, participants and community members we engaged with during the program in August 2021. Jumping between local and international scales, the transborder character of Art, Ecology, and the Commons unfolds throughout the following pages.
Can relating our bodies to growing shrubs foster greater empathy and care? Can looking at forests’ complex modes of organization inspire us in greater solidarity? If a polluted river makes us realize the suffering we cause and endure, a travelling seed can whisper its tale to make us hope, and cope.
As such A Few Things we Learned about Art, Ecology, and the Commons plants the seeds for urgent reflections on our ecological relations and modes of collaboration. (click link or image to download the publication)
Eternal Forest Editorial The Empty Square, 2021
“Learning to live like a forest, to operate like a forest, running on reciprocity, on mutuality, could perhaps be a proposition for a healthier society, one that considers the well-being of other species well as important as its own. I am asking myself can we really learn this? Forest is telling me that she can teach us: she is a great book we can read if we can connect the patterns in our minds.”
UK Health Radio: Environment & Conservation Show, 2021
El Pais, July 2021
The Learned Pig, 2020
Interview with Evgenia Emets by Amelie Eise at Umbigo Magazine, June, 2020
Ecological Citizen, January 2021
Eternal Forest in Trees Journal, 2018
Eternal Forest interview in ECO123, 2018
