Check Out Honevo Bi Hemispheric’s Story

Hi Honevo, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
I am an artist, a Cultural Manager and the founder of the Cultural Association Biomima, that organizes the Bionic Festival, amongst other projects. I have studied economics, fine arts, graphic design, and big data, having also pursued courses in pest management. I have worked in the health sector, as a teacher at the Instituto Europeo di Design, and as a consultant for over 70 textile companies in the Fashion Creators Association of Spain.

I have had exhibitions in Canada, United States, China, Czech Republic, Denmark & Spain, and I have organized performances in Lisbon, Tenerife and Madrid. Currently, I have a permanent installation at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid, called Intergalactic Garden.

I believe decarbonization is a top priority, and currently, I’m working in decarbonization projects in the Cultural Sector.

In the Cultural Sector, perseverance and hard work are a necessity in order to get people to know you projects and the artists you promote. Any artist will tell you that it isn’t a smooth road and you will face uncertainty at every turn. The biggest setbacks I’ve faced have had to do with funding. Finding people who are willing to invest in your projects isn’t easy but with time, perseverance and a positive attitude anything is possible. A new window will open up every time you find a stone in the road.

My projects are not only artistic but also a reaction to the massive biodiversity extinction brought on by climate change. I’ve often felt alone trying to push this idea of conscientious art forms forward but I’ve found like-minded and passionate people along the way.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I have been working in decarbonization projects through art with my Bionic Paintings and Bionic Photographies, introducing living plants and creating floating ecosystems that do not require electricity.

I am the creator and director of the Bionic Festival, a negative carbon footprint performing arts festival, where some of the performers are mobile plants and trees. After the festival, the plants and trees are donated to neighborhood gardens and public schools. Donating the plants and trees not only makes the Bionic Festival able to neutralize its logistical carbon footprint, but to become a carbon-negative event.

Making plants and trees the protagonists in these performances is also a way of activism that fights against an audiovisual anthropocentric culture, creating a new iconography or visual culture where the plant world is just as important as the human world. I believe we need to find ways to integrate ecosystems in art and performances in order to be able to create a truly sustainable cultural sector. I aspire to create bonds with the natural world through my exploration of art with plants as a way to mitigate the excessively synthetic visual culture that we’ve developed in the digitalized age.

We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you.
I think luck can strike in the right place at the right time through the right people, and some artists are lucky for having this triple momentum that can change their life and pave the way to new creative or work experiences.

In my case, I don’t think I have had good or bad luck; I think my hard work, determination, and public relations help me more that luck.