Paula Proaño Mesías

  1. Pulverizing the world, but also spiritualizing its dust
  2. May the illusion be nourished by the whisper of the wind, not by the sedative modern spell
  3. On trans-spirit, technobodies and the family of Tukã
  4. Chimeras
  5. Hyperbeccus (On transhuman artifacts)
  6. Grecia (On repair mechanisms)
  7. Elizabeth (On surgical musical instruments)
  8. Tukã (On domestication devices)
  9. Íyi (On mystical and sacred objects)
  10. Translucent matter
  11. Studies on Zoo-Physiologic Modification: Grecia
  12. Untitled
  13. Sustenance

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Photos: Martina Avilés


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.

Burette clamps y flexographic plates. 
50 x 20 x 7cm ea. 
2022

 ‘Estudios Sobre la Modificación Zoofisiológica: Grecia’ [Studies on Zoo-Physiologic Modification: Grecia] focuses on the study of industrial biomedical structures, such as prosthetic devices for human hands and toucans’ beaks. A compilation of archival and self-produced material is presented in the form of three photopolymer plates that evoke the distinctive transparent skin of the toucan species. This piece calls to be accessed through touch.

Photo: Ignacio Laxalde

Installation view of the exhibition ‘Latinoargentina’, Proa21, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 2024.


Installation view of Open Studio, URRA , Buenos Aires, 2023.



Installation view of ‘in short, we are cyborgs’, OmVed Gardens , London, 2024.
Curated by Tamara Manova & Zofia Kierkus