Saturday 11 April 2026
Sunday 3 May 2026
Blak Dot Gallery
33 Saxon StreetBrunswick, VIC, 3056 Australia
Opening event SATURDAY 11 april, 2pm
Xenobotany, a solo exhibition by Lena Becerra, unfolds as a speculative garden of hybrid organisms, an archive of forms that seem at once biological, prosthetic, and strangely familiar. Within the exhibition space, glass vessels, silicone membranes, metal structures, and circulating liquids compose an ecosystem in constant mutation. Tubes pulse softly, fluids travel through translucent organs, and sculptural bodies appear suspended between specimen, device, and anatomy.
Rather than presenting fixed objects, the installation behaves as a living system. Liquids circulate through glass capsules and prosthetic channels, forming loops that echo the cyclical metabolism of organic processes. These flows connect the sculptures into a network of exchanges where matter moves, transforms, and returns, suggesting that memory itself may operate like a fluid medium.
The work emerges from fragments of personal and collective archives: landscapes of insects and creatures from Mendoza in Argentina, intertwined with traces of a family history marked by exile and disappearance during the military dictatorship. These memories surface indirectly, translated into hybrid morphologies that resist clear classification. In this space, the botanical merges with the technological, the organic with the synthetic, the intimate with the speculative.
Xenobotany imagines a form of botany for unfamiliar futures, one that studies organisms not yet named, bodies that grow across porous boundaries between species, technologies, and environments. The installation proposes a cabinet of living anomalies where soft anatomies coexist with prosthetic structures, and where matter appears to be perpetually in the process of becoming something else.
Through this ecosystem of circulating fluids and speculative anatomies, the exhibition invites visitors to enter a territory where memory, biology, and machine intelligence intertwine. Here the archive loosens its rigid taxonomies, drifting away from inherited systems that once attempted to stabilize nature into categories. Instead, forms proliferate in ambiguity, suggesting that new forms of life may already be germinating within the ruins of the present.
https://blakdot.com.au/current-exhibitions/2026/3/17/xenobotany-lena-becerra
https://hipermedula.org/2026/04/exposicion-xenobotany-por-lena-becerra/
https://www.artshub.com.au/event/xenobotany-lena-becerra-2854460/
