INÊS
BAR
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(latest constructed projects)
(latest constructed projects)
(latest constructed projects)
HORTA DE NÉVOA (2025)
Residency: Shopyard
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VISUAL ARCHIVE
The visual archive comprises all works organised chronologically, spanning research-led projects, installations, and embedded practice developed across art, design, and ecological inquiry.
Inês Barros designs speculative devices that operate as Ecological Prostheses: spaces of tension between ecological care and disturbance. With a background in architecture and visual art, she creates sculptural systems, wearables, and site-specific installations as metabolic bridges between organisms and landscape.
Approaching artistic practice as an ecological gesture, Barros works in applied critical ecologies, drawing on agrotechnology, somatic practices, and speculative design. Her work grows from situated research, amplifying overlooked ecological dynamics and inviting new forms of ecological relationality.
Her current practice grows through residencies, writing, exhibitions, and long-term research projects with cultural institutions, research initiatives, and interdisciplinary collaborators. Before focusing on her independent practice, she collaborated with Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, KWY, and Superflex, that deepened her interest in critical ecologies and more-than-human design. She later co-founded Raiz, an agrotechnology startup focused on hydroponics.
Selected Institutions
COLLABORATIONS
Casco Art Institute, Pluto, Somos Arts, TBA21, Institute for Postnatural Studies, Next Nature, Radio Relativa, Braga25, Tiny Farm Lab, Sónar D+, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Provisional School for Nothing;
ACTIVITY (2025-2026)
i. Founded collective Field Flux. We are presenting our first exhibition at Gardeamus Festival (12th-14th Sept 2026) at Casco Art Institute, Utrech
ii. Residency Espacial at Pluto, Valencia. (12th July - 12th Oct 2026)
iii. Artist in Residency at SomoS Arts Berlin, with final solo exhibition "Soft Frictions" (16th-21st June 2026)
iv. Member of TBA21 Organismo 2026 research group "Last Resorts", exploring how climate imaginaries shape future ecological scenarios (Jan 2026 - ongoing). Presentation Phase I at Thyssen Bormisza Museum Madrid (2nd July 2026)
v. Published article "AI as Soft Future Fossils" in Next Nature Magazine (October 2025).
vi. Residency Shopyard, part of Braga 25 Portuguese Capital of Culture (May 2025). Participated on final collective exhibition with the installation "Horta de Névoa" (8th-28th Nov 2025).
vii. Participant in the Institute for Postnatural Studies Independent Program (Jan-July 2025); final collective project "Tender Radio" developed at Radio Relativa.
viii. Three-month on-site research with Tiny Farm Lab at Dhunar Gaon (Indian Himalayas), focusing on bioregional resources and ancestor vernacular knowledge of the region.
ix. Product design of Ortus for Raiz Vertical Farms. (Feb 2023 - Nov 2025)
x. Traditional basketing residency with Provisional School for Nothing (Sept 2025)
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE (2018-2024)
Co-founder of start-up Raiz Vertical Farms (participation on programs: Techstars Sustainability Paris; Urban X program; Sonar +D; Gentler Futures Festival)
Architect at KWY (participation on projects: Interspecies campus; Play contract; Dive In; Interspecies Assembly)
Architect at Office for Political Innovation (participation on projects: Colégio Reggio; RunRunRun; Transvector; The Future Starts Here; Museum of the Ocean; Mies as Rendered Society)
