Jorge Menna Barreto

As an artist and scholar, the concepts in RESTAURO were envisioned in post-doctoral research in 2014 where I investigated possible relations between agroecology and site-specific practices in the arts. Reimagining land art seen from an agricultural point of view led me to come up with the concept of ‘Environmental Sculpture’ applied to food and its complexities. At the University of Rio, where I live, I teach sculpture on the premises, relating site-specificity, agroecology and food activism.