"Endosymbiosis" in Bilbao, Spain

Right to left: Fernando Pérez, Director of the Azkuna Zentroa-Alhóndiga Bilbao; Shoshanah Dubiner; Koldo Narbaiza, Council on of for the Euskera & Education Area in Bilbao City Council; and Rakel Esparza, Cultural Programming Manager of Azkuna Zentroa.

Here we are at the Azkuna Zentroa, or Cultural Center, of Bilbao, Spain on November 29, 2022. The projected image is what visitors see at the entrance to the exhibit “Science Friction: Living with Companion Species,” the exhibition that was mounted in at the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in 2021. This time I was able to attend the opening press conference, meet the other artists, have lunch with the exhibit team and fellow artists, and attend a party that evening in the atrium of the Azkuna Zentroa, once a warehouse for thousands of wine and olive oil casks. The video animation of my single-celled creatures plays non-stop while the AZ exhibit is open.

Artists and mueum staff lunching together in Bilbao.

Curator of the exhibition, Maria Ptqk, standing next to one of Maria Sybilla Merian’s books.