The artist describes her piece as “cybernetics relicts”. The starting point of the video is the “jarro pato”, a pre-Colombian ceramic water pot, which has a zoomorphic form and is depicted while crying—whose lines are then juxtaposed by the artist to the rest of the installation. As the images unfold, the vase is also transformed into a “crying drone” whose journey connects the exploited territories to their past civilizations.
In the work, the artist seems to encode elements taken from the real and confronts them with digital reconstructions, to create new possible cosmologies and sustainable ways of living. Combining science fiction and ethnographic surrealism, Domínguez’s work adopts a wide array of multispecies myths, healing rituals and corporate wellness schemes to reflect on contemporary realities.
Patricia Domínguez (b. 1984, Santiago, Chile) is an artist, educator, and defender of the living. She focuses on how neoliberalism perpetuates colonial practices of extraction and exploitation. She uses technology to connect with the living realm, envisioning possible futures for all creatures as well as the earth and the clouds.
She has been the recipient of the SIMETRIA prize to participate in a residency at CERN, Switzerland in 2021 and is currently director of the ethnobotanical platform Studio Vegetalista.
WAMx 2021
The exhibition series Cosmic Archaeology comprises four exhibitions examining the ways we can live in harmony with the world around us. The exhibitions share a form of expression typical for sci-fi, which offers means for reflecting on change and uncertainty, and for seeing the consequences of our actions on ecosystems. Along with Patricia Domínguez, the exhibitions feature Tabita Rezaire from France, Alia Farid from Kuwait and Puerto Rico, and Mox Mäkelä from Finland.
The exhibition series is curated by the Italian Lucia Aspesi, who works as curator at the Pirelli HangarBicocca foundation in Milan. Aspesi has participated in numerous international exhibition projects and among others has curated exhibitions by Trisha Baga, Sheela Gowda, Marinella Pirelli, Ben Rivers and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
