Sacred Mountain

IED Kunsthal Bilbao - Student: María Mur

Academic year

2024/2025

A project that explores how human identity emerges from the dialogue between nature, tradition and collective beliefs.

Sacred Mountain explores the intersection of nature, culture, and tradition in the formation of human identities, focusing on how beliefs and natural environments interact through relational networks of organisms, microbiomes, and cultural contexts.

Taking Montserrat as a case study, a multi-peaked mountain range near Barcelona, it investigates how biological and cultural elements intertwine to create collective identities.  

The project combines scientific research on the local microbiome with the study of liturgy, aiming to translate this fusion into a visual system that represents the union of nature and culture.