- Performance Art
- Visual Art
- Interdisciplinary Project
A Rite into Passage: Restoring the territory of the Self
Elizabeth Barragan Porras
3 July 2026 19:00 – 5 July 2026 19:00
A RITE INTO PASSAGE: Restoring the Territory of the Self
proposes an immersive installation that transforms an interior exhibition space into a living landscape—an experiential cartography of permeable borders between body, home, memory, and territory.
Drawing from ecology, design, and artistic practice, the project understands borders not as fixed lines but as passages: provisional, shifting, and alive. Walls—often symbols of separation—are reimagined as membranes through a mixed collage lansdscape. They absorb, transmit, and remember. The exhibition space becomes an outdoor interior, where ancestral landscapes, biophilic textures, and embodied memory surface within domestic architecture. Mountains emerge from walls, territories from textiles, and nostalgia from material traces.
The work originates from a personal transformation. My home became the womb of a long-repressed artistry—a nest shaped by heat, fire, and care. Within this intimate space, functional objects and decorative elements evolved into artworks that express dreams, passions, and purpose. As an ecologist working with landscape-scale systems and restoration, I understand that in nature borders do not exist as rigid demarcations. There are only gradients, edges, and relational thresholds where life negotiates itself. As a designer, I visualize these systems. As an artist, I now craft them into a living archive.
OUT/SIDE/IN is approached not as a journey from exterior to interior, but as a continuous entanglement. The “outside” has always been inscribed within the “inside”: the homeland within the body, territory within memory, ecology within the self. The installation dissolves binaries between nature and city, private and public, discipline and intuition. It proposes identity as a process—fluid, ecosomatic, and in constant renegotiation.
A Dive Into Passage reframes borders as spaces of possibility: sites of belonging, care, and transformation, where personal and collective landscapes co-emerge.
proposes an immersive installation that transforms an interior exhibition space into a living landscape—an experiential cartography of permeable borders between body, home, memory, and territory.
Drawing from ecology, design, and artistic practice, the project understands borders not as fixed lines but as passages: provisional, shifting, and alive. Walls—often symbols of separation—are reimagined as membranes through a mixed collage lansdscape. They absorb, transmit, and remember. The exhibition space becomes an outdoor interior, where ancestral landscapes, biophilic textures, and embodied memory surface within domestic architecture. Mountains emerge from walls, territories from textiles, and nostalgia from material traces.
The work originates from a personal transformation. My home became the womb of a long-repressed artistry—a nest shaped by heat, fire, and care. Within this intimate space, functional objects and decorative elements evolved into artworks that express dreams, passions, and purpose. As an ecologist working with landscape-scale systems and restoration, I understand that in nature borders do not exist as rigid demarcations. There are only gradients, edges, and relational thresholds where life negotiates itself. As a designer, I visualize these systems. As an artist, I now craft them into a living archive.
OUT/SIDE/IN is approached not as a journey from exterior to interior, but as a continuous entanglement. The “outside” has always been inscribed within the “inside”: the homeland within the body, territory within memory, ecology within the self. The installation dissolves binaries between nature and city, private and public, discipline and intuition. It proposes identity as a process—fluid, ecosomatic, and in constant renegotiation.
A Dive Into Passage reframes borders as spaces of possibility: sites of belonging, care, and transformation, where personal and collective landscapes co-emerge.
Biography
Elizabeth Barragan Porras
I am a Colombian biophilic artist, conservation ecologist, and regenerative designer working at the intersection of ecology, transformation, and sustainability. Shaped by tropical landscapes, I grew up within the tension between human needs and ecological limits. My practice weaves together ecological restoration, eco-somatic practices, and systems transformation with a personal return to body and land after experiences of injury and disconnection. Through art, research, and ritual, I create living cartographies that reconnect self and territory. My work gathers fragments, senses patterns, and forms new meanings from what has been eroded or buried—offering a sensory invitation to remember our belonging within the web of life.
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