ESTO NOS SALVARÁ 2023-2024

The garden sculpture "ESTO NOS SALVARÁ" is the first major project of the city of Valencia as European Green Capital 2024 and was produced entirely in Valencia by the Ana Serratosa Gallery & Art Spaces.
From the letter-shaped Corten steel planters to the design, management, and selection of vegetables and grains, the main objective is to raise awareness and generate a change of mindset about nature. It is, therefore, a political action that aims to become a collective exercise, through which to engage citizens in other, more environmentally friendly practices.

In the first space of the Gallery at street Pascual y Genís, 19, the work connects with another of Ghada Amer's best-known currents: one that focuses on examining women's rights through their bodies.

This installation was part of Ghada Amer's body of work, which was exhibited in three different spaces throughout the city of Valencia.

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The Artist

Ghada Amer (1963. Cairo, Egypt) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work primarily addresses the ambiguous and transitory nature of the paradox that arises when seeking concrete definitions of East and West, feminine and masculine, art and craft. Through his paintings, sculptures and public garden projects, Amer takes traditional notions of cultural identity, abstraction and religious fundamentalism to invert them and advocate for an ethical positioning in keeping with our times.

Amer's work can be found in public collections around the world, including the Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk.VA; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi; the Samsung Museum, Seoul, among others.

Between invitations to prestigious group exhibitions and biennials, such as the Whitney Biennial in 2000 and the Venice Biennials in 1999 (where he won the UNESCO prize) 2005 and 2007, he was offered a mid-career retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York in 2008. And a larger and more extensive one at three major museums in Marseille (France) in December 2022.

He lives and works in New York.