Foto:(TR4)
(ramfoundation The Art of Travelling 2014)
Large scale print of a Zeppelin-like object whose structure is fabricated from a vast collection of banana labels. The variety of labels (more than 10.000 different ones) makes a graphic constellation of the world's banana producers, gathered into a sort of museum-object. Tropical Race is the generic name given to a disease that seems to recurrently come back and threaten the global banana industry, as the monoculture of the same species all over the world makes it particularly easy to travel through different plantations. The dominant banana species in the 50's, Gros Michel, was nearly wiped out due to Tropical Race, while its current alternative that was found as an emergency replacement to satisfy the world's market is currently threatened by a new version (TR4) of the disease.