Nicole Vindel (Guatemala, 1992) is an artist, researcher and educator. Her practice sits at the intersection of art, ecology and politics, unfolding through installation, performance and collaborative processes that question the structures that shape production and consumption. Body, matter and territory are the axes from which she constructs a language where the aesthetic and the political are inseparably intertwined.
Linked to Elisava as a professor, she has developed an international trajectory from which she approaches food material culture as a space of conflict and knowledge. Her projects focus on issues such as accessibility, privilege, systems of value, memory and the invisible economies that sustain modern consumption systems.
Among her lines of work stands out Privilege of Fake Abundance, developed in collaboration with Pure Earth Foundation and within the research framework of Columbia University. The project examines lead contamination associated with the use of glazed ceramics in Mexican communities, putting into tension the beauty of the everyday object with its material conditions of production and its consequences on bodies. Her practice is frequently activated in exhibition and mediation contexts, involving audiences in experiences where knowledge emerges from the encounter between the thing and the person who inhabits it.