Artist Statement
My practice interrogates and (re)presents ecologies of labor with an emphasis on the potential of (re)productive labor, that is, labor to reproduce individuals, labor power, and culture, to address the “metabolic rift”, as Marx puts it, between humans and nature. Outcomes consist of sculptural works, bio-material and fermentation experiments, texts, landscape interventions, recipes, meals, and workshops. In my practice, materials inhabit states of change and challenge the apparent spontaneous generation of material (e.g. yeasts, mold, synanthropic organisms). Bodies and worlds become implicated in each other's imperatives to transform, with microbes and forms acting as ambassadors or fugitives between works, problematizing the nature of contamination, consumption, exchange, and domestication. Processes slip between craft, decorative, domestic, and survival practices and with a focus on embodiment and metabolization of ecologies of labor. Materials and forms are accumulated and re-presented in dioramic arrangements, grotesque aggregates, and baroque heaps: cosmoses in miniature.
Composite Organ(on) 2023 Matadero Madrid Beeswax, medical solidifier, tap water, fishmongers gloves, aluminum disks