P005 → Hyperbeccus (On transhuman artifacts)
Installation view of the exhibition ‘Affectus’, Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión Bellavista, Quito, 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.
Surgical resin, stainless steel, velcro
46 x 14 x 12cm
2023
Taking the prefix “Hyper-” as a reference to hyperobjects, a term coined by philosopher Timothy Morton, ‘Hyperbeccus (Sobre artefactos transhumanistas)’ [Hyperbeccus (On transhuman artifacts)] is situated within transhumanist logics and questions the impact of technological evolution on interspecies relationships throughout history.
Installation view of the exhibition ‘Imaginar futuros al cobijo de un paisaje’ [To imagine futures sheltered by a landscape], curated by Guillermina Mongan, 111° Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, 2023.