As part of the Lingue Sorelle residency program organized by the Italian Cultural Institute, Italian artist Lucia Veronesi presents her project Sin nombre conocido, an exhibition dedicated to exploring the relationship between language and botany in Mexico. Mexico's biological and linguistic diversity shows a strong geographical overlap, particularly in the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, Guerrero, and Michoacán, which are home to the largest number of species and languages. This means that the areas with the highest number of endangered species overlap with those where languages are most at risk.

Cultural and ecological diversity are closely related. Local communities interact with the environment and modify it by adapting to specific ecological niches, acquiring a deep knowledge of them. Native languages are therefore carriers of eco-cultural knowledge that includes habitats and their conservation, plant life, animal behavior, and many other aspects of the natural world.

The project is realized through the use of fabrics, drawing, and embroidery, continuing an artistic research that Lucia Veronesi has been pursuing for years, where plant fibers, in their textile and semiotic diversity, become the necessary formulation, and almost the only possible language, of a discourse on native languages and botany.

What does the landscape tell us and teach us, whether it be domestic, intimate, familiar, natural, or urban, together with the stories of those who inhabit it or have experienced it? How many stories, with their consequences and implications, teach us to understand our times? Starting from these questions, Lucia Veronesi researches anthropological, historical, and scientific elements that make landscapes and stories unique. She reworks them through collage, fabrics, video, painting, photography, and drawing to obtain a new version of spaces. The artist works on visions that hover between what is real and what is abstract, sometimes almost fairy-tale-like: an ambivalent narrative, halfway between documentation and imagination, which involves a transformation, a reversal of the rules. She is interested in the fusion of techniques and the overlapping and mutual invasion of fields, techniques, and disciplines, particularly the anthropological, scientific, and sociological aspects.