P007 → Elizabeth (On surgical musical instruments)
Installation view of the exhibition ‘Imaginar futuros al cobijo de un paisaje’ [To imagine futures sheltered by a landscape] 111º Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, 2023.
‘Affectus’ is a project that hybridizes the aesthetic and conceptual universes inherent in reconstructive medical sciences, biological sciences, ancestral artifacts, and animal domestication instruments; distilling these categories into sculptural pieces that allude to the reconstructive prosthesis of Grecia (the toucan), the first bird to have received a beak prosthesis.
Olm wood, Kiri wood, Cedar wood, leather and bronze.
56 x 16 x 14cm
2022
Part of the ‘Affectus’ series, ‘Elizabeth (Sobre instrumentos musicales quirúrgicos)’ [Elizabeth (On surgical musical instruments)] evokes the speculative fiction of Elizabeth Burton, pianist that wore her “right below elbow prosthesis” when playing in concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1906.
Installation view of the exhibition ‘Affectus’, Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión Bellavista, Quito, 2023.
Photo: Simon Speiser
Installation view of the exhibition ‘Tiempo de Siembra’, BPA//Raum, Berlin, 2024. Curated by Simon Speiser