Fernando García-Dory

INLAND is an artistic project that started in 2009 and examines the role of territories, geopolitics, culture and identity in the relationship between the city and the countryside.

During a first phase INLAND comprised an international conference, artistic production with 22 artists in the same number of villages across the country, as well as exhibitions and presentations across Spain.

Today INLAND works as a para-institution to open space for land-based collaborations, economies and communities-of-practice. INLAND’s activities include: study groups; publications; training schools for shepherds, peasant leaders, and craftsmen; newly commissioned projects by artists and farmers; involvement in local politics; and solidarity networks. INLAND Europa publishes books, produces shows and makes cheese with traditional local techniques. It also advises as consultant for the European Union Commission on the use of art for rural development policies and is recovering an abandoned village for collective artistic and agricultural production.

INLAND is an imaginative, inquisitive, and practical method for relating to our environment relying on peasant and indigenous resistance while also appropriating institutional means.

In the frame of Afield mentorship programs from 2018 to 2020, Fernando became the mentor of Arielle Lehua in 2019, a multidisciplinary artist and social entrepreneur from the island of Maui, and Waysatta Fernandez in 2020, artist and co-founder Crater Invertido Cooperativa.