The art project Conversations with the Landscape, linked to the URJC, has been invited this year to be part of the main presentations within the III International Congress Sculpture Body and Territory, The Earth as a Feeling Body, held at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University, from October 7 to 10, 2025. To inhabit the EarthThe presentation, which reviewed 15 years of artistic research on the landscape, also became the focus of an artistic intervention carried out and installed in a poplar grove of the Ancient Romana, in the Historic Groves of Aranjuez.

The work was conceived by using the body—our own bodies and those of some conference attendees—as an archive of different anatomical forms to compose a large set of elements whose order could coincide with the scheme of the human body: head, arms, hands, torso, legs, feet… All these body fragments, some repeated, were obtained by imprinting the forms onto clay. Then, once the pieces were dry, they were installed in the landscape.

Research team and project resources

The research team consists of Valerie de la Dehesa (UCM), Montaña Galán (UCM), Jorge Caminero (URJC), Estrella Pérez (URJC), Ane Etxeberria (URJC), Ruth Francia (URJC), Ruth Remartínez (UCM), Ana E. Balboa (URJC) and Marta Linaza (URJC).

More information and access to the program:

Program III International Congress Sculpture Body and Territory, The earth as a body that feels

GAIA: sculpture between body and territory