The figure of the arthropod reappears in this ecosystem as a reminder of the parasitical yet cyclical nature of life. Voluminous textures and surfaces explore the connections between memory, organicity and trauma within a hybrid body. The idea of fragmented elements that are no longer alive, yet forced into a suspended state of time - where they are not allowed to rot, nor continue the cycle of decomposition - pushes all the elements of this installation towards an uncanny feeling of codependency.
I think of my work as a xenoconstellation of other -cyclical- forms of existence.
When thinking of a body, I’m constantly reflecting on three constitutive aspects: The surface of the skin. A rhyzomatic organic membrane of everything that lies under the skin, trapped within organs and fluids. The metaphysical act of things that happen in other planes of its existence - Particularly in the memory- dark holes, swampy voids of things we cannot remember create eerieness.
Within my work, this is where metamorphosis happens, mutating morphologies that draw from my personal memory archive of generational trauma, xenofeminism and obsession with undefined creatures and structures.
Pandora Gallery in Kreuzberg, Berlin - 04/05/24 - 25/05/24
As part of Ventana Into The Swamp
Mixing both the idea of scientific investigation and xenomorphous bodies, this arthropod creature explores the breeding morphologies of the gestational process of worlds and -beyond human- relationships that operate directly on the dermis of the social fabric and, therefore, in the building of a web of collective memory.
Over the course of 30 days, this synthetic organism of cyclical nature will coexist within the urban life inside the U-Bahn station, pumping and expulsing dark liquids through its prosthetically designed arteries.
Dialoguing viscerally with the liquid stage of matter invites us to reflect on a suspended time — where past and future puncture the present simultaneously.
Deeply entangled with the nature of the swamp, organisms may reproduce through humidity trapped inside of the glass and grow from the pond, we may think of this parasitical life as a result of entering a state of co-participation with other states of existence.
Contained and confined, like inside of a laboratory test tube or a museum’s cabinet, the paradigm of who is observing who adds to an uncanny feeling of codependency. Yet, allowing to experience a liminal space of in betweenness – life growing and existing within of life.
October 2024 in Barcelona, Spain
In Ex0phycology, hybrid creatures explore the breeding morphologies of the gestational processes of worlds and -beyond human- relationships that operate directly on the dermis of the social fabric and, therefore, in the building of a web of collective memory.
“Dripping stillness, conceived in the depths of a basement; charged with the archetypical force of the underworld—part laboratory for synthetic matter experimentation, part home to arthropods that preceded this work.
A dark, humid, and silent ecosystem of oscillating organisms being bred— some pre-living, intra-uterus still, yet beating; waiting to be awakened from the eternal dream to consciousness.
For them, trans-living possibilities await, where their acephalous bodies will meet the cold steel clasp of surgical interventions—suspended limbs as a result of partial procedures; interrupted amputations conceived for the delight of prosthetic engineering.
In the center, an autonomous entity of cyclical nature; shadow-working like the moon. Perpetually self-phagocytizing fluids — an ouroboros with no head or tail, only ghostly matter shifting states: the womb, the portal giving birth, to a cluster of leaky children in cautious stillness—a dripping ecosystem- meta-material.”
An exhibition by Lena Becerra
Curated by Julieta Colantonio and Sofia Mastrogiacomo
SpätiBros | basement
Kottbusser Damm 95, 10967, Berlin.
Curated by Julieta Colantonio and Sofia Mastrogiacomo
SpätiBros | basement
Kottbusser Damm 95, 10967, Berlin.
All Artworks by Lena Becerra @lena.bcrra
Graphic Design by Sofia Mastrogiacomo @_sms.xyz
Texts by Julieta Colantonio @jxcolantonio
Sound Design by Candie @cand.i.e
Light Design by Shaly López @shalopez__
Produced by Sofia Marchetti @altmarchex
Graphic Design by Sofia Mastrogiacomo @_sms.xyz
Texts by Julieta Colantonio @jxcolantonio
Sound Design by Candie @cand.i.e
Light Design by Shaly López @shalopez__
Produced by Sofia Marchetti @altmarchex
GLASS, STEEL.
