The sea holds endless mysteries. Like a repository of memories, it crashes against the rocks, bursting with a multitude of colors and textures; it carries objects and living beings back and forth, revealing traces of a million routes and journeys. Life persists here in shards and fragments—rusting metals, metabolizing and decomposing a vast array of materials. Elena Landinez is a collector of this "waste"—to borrow a term from the poet Manoel de Barros. Attuned to seemingly i

MORE THAN HUMAN Exhibition Catalogue, The Design Museum, London, 2025 *Read more about the Exhibition **Buy the Book

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* Elena Landinez: A magical world between beauty and tragedy. Text: Luisa Kiefer If we could see inside whales, what would we find? And what would be inside a dolphin? Are they made up only of their own bodies, the water that surrounds them, and marine debris, or are they also made of flowers, poetry, and other beings? And what if we imagined that they carry within themselves a universe of their own? I dare say that what the artist Elena Landinez portrays is, in a way, a plac

A Secret Garden of symbioses with life Chapter I: The Diary / 2025 - 2026 (in continum expansion) Here I gather the first chapter of this Infinite Organism: The Diary. A place where grawings emerge both deliberately and intuitively. A diary that holds memories of dreams, desires, contemplation and pleasure. It is a blend of the ecstasy and orgasm of being alive. Welcome to it.

The More Than Human Life (MOTH) An initiative of Earth Rights Advocacy and The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School. The MOTH - More Than Human Life project advances the ideas, methods, tools, and strategies necessary to secure the rights of humans and non-humans and the web of life that encompasses the More-Than-Human world. WHAT IS THE MOTH PROJECT? MOTH Characters Notebook of curiosities Creation and study of more-than-human characters for MOTH, 202

Curarrehue, Araucánia, Chile, 2023. Hosted by The Fungi Foundation Visual Diary

Mother Other is a book that is part of the MOTH project, More-Than-Human Life Project, of the Research and Action Program for the Rights of Nature, carried out by the New York University School of Law. The work refers to "Mother Other" and is a journey into a dreamlike universe with colorful illustrations of beings of various types and sizes. It is a story in which the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning, inspired by 'more-than-human' lives. A Mother being as a

The 2024 MOTH Gathering, meanwhile, was co-hosted by the Sarayaku Indigenous People and held in their territory. This third annual gathering built off the scaffolding laid by the previous two gatherings. While keeping with the general theme of “MOTH in practice,” the 2024 gathering was tailored to two new points of focus. First, as this gathering was co-hosted by the Sarayaku and held in their territory, the gathering spent substantial time on the Sarayaku People’s initiative

Song of the Cedars was jointly created by four humans—the musician Cosmo Sheldrake, the writer Robert Macfarlane, the legal scholar César Rodríguez-Garavito, and the mycologist Giuliana Furci—and a cloud forest, namely the Los Cedros Forest in Ecuador. With the crucial assistance of the Ecuadorian organization Celid Plural, a legal petition was filed with the Ecuadorian copyright office, seeking to have the Los Cedros Forest recognized as an author of the Song of the Cedars a

The Festival is dedicated to exploring the rich and rapidly evolving field of inquiry and action pursuing efforts to bring the more-than-human world into the ambit of moral, legal, and social concern. The Festival has two components. The morning sessions comprise a closed-door, interactive academic conference which will examine philosophical, scientific, legal, and cultural perspectives on more-than-human rights and other ecocentric paradigms. In addition to serving as an int

The More-Than-Human Rights Mural Elena Landinez, César Rodríguez-Garavito PVC-free wallpaper, acetate Design Museum, London, 2025 This mural records the names of rivers that have been awarded legal rights by the countries through which they flow, as well as land surrounding waterways whose rights have been debated in court. These constitutional provisions, court rulings and declarations protect the integrity of rivers and, by extension, the many species (including humans) who

What can we say to the Sea? An installation showcasing an island of collected plastics and objects gathered during different tides on the beaches of Salvador. Generally, on rainy days, the beaches are flooded with plastic and trash carried by the waters flowing into the sea. Plastic is a species created by us, humans; its usefulness today surpasses the limits of invasiveness. This installation took place during the artistic occupation, Possible Futures, at the Zona Fluxus stu