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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P009 → Íyi (On mystical and sacred objects)



Photo: Matias Roth


Installation view of the exhibition ‘Currículum Cero’, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, 2022 

‘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.

Onyx, steel shaft, stainless steel base 
22 x 10 x 11cm 
2022

Part of the ‘Affectus’ series. ‘Íyi (sobre objetos místicos y sagrados)’ [Íyi (On mystical and sacred objects)] reflects on jadeite and onyx amulets from Mesoamerican cultures (present-day Costa Rica), in which the representation of the bird serves as a bridge to the divine and allows communion between beings.