Since 2012, Elise Eeraerts and Roberto Aparicio Ronda have been developing a multidisciplinary practice focusing mainly on the relationship between art and architecture. Their projects substantialize in natural settings or urban public space, where site-specificity, history and material transformations are the subject of their research.
As the most primitive material, earth occupies an important central role within their practice: from explorations of land and excavations therein, to the appropriation of various types of soil and its processing into objects and spatial installations. In their recent work, Eeraerts and Aparicio Ronda examine the role of land and landscape from a climate science perspective. In a thought-provoking, often visceral way, they allow current conventions from the anthropocene to collide with ideas and traditions whereby humans have and continue to appropriate nature.

Elise Eeraerts studied visual art at LUCA School of Arts (Brussel), at the Institute fur Raumexperimente, Klasse Olafur Eliasson, UdK (Berlin) and completed an internship at Studio Carsten Nicolai. Her art practice received multiple grants and awards, and has been exhibited internationally. Roberto Aparicio Ronda studied architecture at E.T.S. Arquitectura (Valladolid) and visual arts at Universidad del PaĆ­s Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Bilbao). He worked as an architect for various international offices, such as OMA, office for metropolitan architecture, Rotterdam (NL) and Kengo Kuma and Associates, Tokyo (JP).

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