Lena Becerra and Aquiles Jarrin.
Curated by Raisa Desypri, the show emerges as a collection of visual, sculpture and auditory installations that seek to articulate the relationship between organic and inorganic, human and non-human, natural and fabricated.
The artists invite us to join them down below to a world hidden away beneath the urban landscape and guide us through an unseen world of transformation. Within this surrealist setting resembling a science fiction laboratory, hybrid creatures part organic, part artificial are coming to life and raise questions concerning contemporary forms of transformation, while examining the human-nature relationship in new ways.
While Lena's "machine like" creatures - through the tactile, structural, and visual qualities of her materials - expose various angles of interconnection between the natural and the human made; Aquiles work delves into the insatiable human desire to search beneath and the ongoing histories of resource extraction and its repereussions. Through their collective works both artists engage with the question of where the line is between the natural and the artificial and how the unknown bodies and matter are actively making and changing the spaces of the world above, from within the carth.
"Soundless Forms: Mapping the Underword" was part of the 48 Stunden Neukolln festival 2024
Lena Becerra and Aquiles Jarrin
Curated by Raisa Desypri
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