19.11.2026

10.00–11.30 am

Joana Quiroga 

Artist, art researcher, and philosopher

On Food, Body, Domestication, and Colonization

A conversation on whether the imposition of food like wheat products (specifically through domestication and colonization) have shaped not only our bodies, but also our mindsets.

Joana Quiroga is a philosopher from Brazil who became a visual artist to give Philosophy a closer presence to everyday life and in dialogue with social causes and struggles. In her work, she investigates how different power relations, and their consequent inequalities, can live hidden in our daily lives. To do this, she “zooms in” on things normally considered “obvious”, like air, bread, time, water, and stomach: more than an abstraction, she asks with things about who we are, in a sincere quest for other understandings, and with that, changes.

At the moment she is a PhD researcher at University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland, with a project about inequality through bread and wheat, specially focusing their presence in Brazil, asking also how this may have influenced our (western) way of thinking and our body consistencies. Always using a wide range of media, she has participated in exhibitions, projects and residencies in places like Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), Academy of the Arts of Novi Sad (Serbia), Ars Kosara (Bosnia Herzegovina), among others. 

Links: www.joanaquiroga.com / Instagram

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