Bandia Ribeira: Not a Home Without Fire – Bristol Photo Festival
October 16 @ 10:00 am - October 17 @ 5:00 pm
Bandia Ribeira’s work stands as a historic record of agricultural production in the 21st century. Here she focuses on the often-invisible labourers of the vast network of greenhouses that dominate the landscape of the agro-industrial region of Almería (Andalusia, Spain), known locally as ‘The Sea of Plastic’. It is an area dedicated to the production of out-of-season vegetables for export to northern European countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany, where communities of workers form an often-invisible part of a system of ‘techno-agrarian’ capitalism, where lax labour and environmental regulations fuel cycles of exploitation and segregation. This exhibition is supported by The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists and Accion Cultural Española.
