Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros

2023

This work presents a series of archives, specimens, and objects that explore the complex relationship of nature and technology, as well as the way they have shaped knowledge production historically. Through four interconnected stations — Diagrammatical (diagrams of neural/mycelial networks), Digital (AI-generated landscapes and organisms), Physical (3D-printed hybrid sculptures), and Speculating the Particular (living organisms and collected specimens) — the piece explores the speculative interactions between fungi, slime mold, and artificial intelligence processes, while addressing particular problems such as illegal mining activities in Venezuela. A space where nature and technology are not opposed but intertwined, where categories are not fixed but fluid.

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, installation view, dark gallery with glowing screens, blue-lit wooden cabinets, vitrines, and reflective floor

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, wooden laser-cut box with internal white branching form and purple glow, surrounded by blue cyanotype network diagrams on a wood wall

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, dark room, glass-front wooden cabinet lined with blue branching prints, small brain-like sculpture and patterned box inside, colorful screen behind

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, installation view, tall wooden unit covered in blue and white diagram prints with an open drawer emitting bright blue light

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, wall panel dense with blue network cyanotypes and small square prints of glowing cubes above a chest with blue light from an open drawer

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, glowing wooden cube with internal branch structure and purple light amid cyanotype fungal and network prints

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, close view of blue cyanotype prints of mushroom-like forms and diagrams pinned on dark wood

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, wooden cabinet in darkness, open drawers glowing green with dome grid and pale blue organic form inside

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, angled view of a wooden chest with maps on top and three drawers pulled out showing blue, green, and white interior lights

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, clay 3D printer extruding a layered mound in a dark room, cyan-lit mineral display case in background

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, close view of a clay 3D printer nozzle above a layered beige mound on a black print bed

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, macro view of layered teal-lit organic 3D form with cave-like interior, white fibrous growth, and dark spots

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, installation view, tall cyan-lit refrigerator and stacked mini fridges holding white coral-like sculptures in a dark room

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, layered white 3D printed sculptures on a wire shelf under intense turquoise light inside a cabinet

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, translucent resin tree with round fruits on a wire shelf, teal-lit organic forms nearby

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, 3D printed arch with green moss-like growth on top, on a wire shelf in cyan-green light

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, macro of bright yellow branching slime mold over oat flakes on magenta and teal bubbly ground

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, two-panel digital collage with yellow-bordered map-like shapes, orange cloud forms, and white vein patterns

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, installation view, square petri dishes with colored organic cultures on a white plinth inside a glass case

Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros, top view of a plastic tray with magenta substrate, yellow slime mold veins, white filaments, oat flakes, and a twig