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Patricia Dominguez
Born in 1984, Santiago, Chile
Overview
Patricia Domínguez is interested in healing practices, ethnobotany and the co-opting and corporatisation of ‘wellness’ and wellbeing, and the points at which, through colonial encounters and cultural collision, these concepts connect or mutate. Through her exploration of ethnobotany in South America – the relationship and interconnectedness between plants and humans, including plants’ modification, use and geographical dispersal – the artist uncovers processes of colonial extraction and capitali...Read more