Juan Zamora's latest work "Transplant" is on view at Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

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Spanish artists Juan Zamora is invited to the group exhibition “Overview Effect” which is now on view through September 20 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.

“Overview Effect” is curated by Blanca de la Torre and Zoran Erić. This project seeks to address the issue of the environmental justice that can only be approached through an analysis of the inseparable links between climate change and other forms of injustice related to gender, race, corporate imperialism, indigenous sovereignty, and the importance of decolonising and de-anthropocentrizing the planet in order to reshape an inclusive mindset akin to a multispecies world.

“Transplant” is Zamora latest work which is based on an experiment conducted by a team of biologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in which they successfully transplanted cardiovascular heart cells into decellularized spinach leaves, the artwork “Transplant” consists in culturing Zamora’s heart cells in vegetable tissue in order to exhibit the results as a living artwork at the exhibition.

“Overview Effect”
Exhibition dates:2020.10.02-2021.09.20
Exhibition venue:Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
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