Meeting with Asunción Molinos Gordo

Asunción Molinos Gordo (1979, Aranda de Duero, Burgos, Spain) is a researcher and visual artist. She works from a perspective strongly influenced by the methods of disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, focusing her work on the contemporary peasantry.

In her artistic practice she questions the categories that define ‘innovation’ in the current dominant discourse, exploring the different forms of intellectual domination from the urban to the rural. Her understanding of the figure of the small or medium farmer is not limited only to the food producer but also to that of the cultural agent, responsible for both perpetuating traditional knowledge and generating new expertise to face current challenges.

Molinos Gordo’s work makes us reflect on the use of the land, nomadic architecture, peasant strikes, bureaucracy over the territory, the transformation of rural work, biotechnology and international food trade.