P008 → Tukã (On domestication devices)
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.
Leather, pigmented resin, bronze
58 x 16 x 12cm
2023
‘Tukã (Sobre dispositivos de domesticación)’ [Tukã (On domestication devices), ponders on biopiracy and the trade of species that has developed in the province of Tucumán, Argentina. In this region, the Toco Toucan species (Ramphastos Toco) has been brought to the brink of extinction due to these practices.