María Buenaventura is an artist, author and chef. Her artistic practice focuses primarily on the history and socio-political implications of food and culinary traditions, as well as concepts of historicity and memory. From the early 2000s she has been researching the history of food in the Sabana of Bogota, where she lives and works, as a way to unearth the narratives and experiences of local communities. Concerned with principles of preservation, she arranges in her works collected fragments, stories, recipes, testimonies, residues of landscapes and few ingredients in order to explore the dynamics that tie a territory, a community, its culture, its education and its traditions together. Through her different projects, Buenaventura reflects on questions of belonging and survival, of both human and non-human beings, in relation to a history of violence, looting and destruction. As she states: “The search for forgotten beings and the certainty that they are alive” drives her artistic practice.