Neither completely domesticated nor completely wild, the dehesa is an ecosystem that challenges our classical binaries and confronts us with the liminal territory of intermediaries and exchanges. The symbiosis present in the dehesa invites us to conceive of ourselves not through borders but through continuities. Winter´s Memory is situated right there, amidst the associations that make evolution possible, in the territory of the undefinable, in the intricate knots that link one thing to another.

As early as the 1970s, biologist Lynn Margulis argued that symbiosis is the primary force of evolution. She said, “We are walking communities.” Winter´s Memory expands on this idea in his work, directing his attention to the biological, cultural, technological, and spiritual symbioses that reconfigure the evolution of the modern world. The proposal is simple: no matter how we look at it, we are symbiotic beings—participants in relationships that shape and reshape us. But this seemingly harmless idea shakes the certainties upon which we have built our separation from “the other.” Suddenly, delimiting the human becomes complicated.

Through trees, lichens, and oracles, Winter´s Memory dwells in the tensions between the earthly and the sacred, the natural and the technological, the measurable and the speculative, questioning their duality. In this way, the project proposes an approach to a natural philosophy that engages with deep time and our responsibility for the future, allowing us to question given reality and move effortlessly between science, poetry, and the sacred.

Winter´s Memory is a commissioned project by Fundación Campocerrado as part of its I artistic production residency grant.