ARTIST STATEMENT

We investigate the expressive possibilities of emerging technologies to reinterpret the relationship between humanity and nature within the context of continuous scientific advancements. We believe that art and science must intertwine to expand the ways we perceive reality and connect with our environment.

Our practice explores concepts such as sustainability, identity, and innovation, addressing topics including the impact of technological evolution, representations of nature, intangible realities, and dystopian futures. Our creative process is grounded in the hybridization of advanced digital tools, such as CGI animation and Artificial Intelligence, with handcrafted techniques and traditional materials like ceramics, producing pieces where the digital and physical coexist and engage in dialogue.

Each work offers an opportunity to experiment with textures, forms, and patterns that not only reflect the complexity of the world we inhabit but also invite reflection on our role in its transformation and preservation. We aim not only to capture the beauty and fragility of nature but also to question the future we are constructing and how the organic and technological can coexist in harmony.

AILANTHUS

Ailanthus is an artistic series that explores the human form through its connection with the natural habitat. The artwork depicts dreamlike figures represented with natural materials such as stone and wood, influenced by warm lights. Each composition oscillates between abstraction and figuration, utilizing soft organic forms that converge in an ambiguous and intricate manner.

It is a journey of discovery and contemplation, where the human form seamlessly merges with the beauty of the natural world. Through this work, we aim to delve into the profound connection between humanity and the surrounding environment, exploring the complex interplay between organic shapes and the warmth of natural materials.

The organic shapes we employ in our compositions echo the fluid lines of the natural world. These smooth and sinuous forms evoke a sense of movement, as if the figures are caught in a perpetual dance with their surroundings.

As we delve deeper into our artistic exploration, we are reminded of the complex relationship between humanity and nature. The human form, with its inherent vulnerability and strength, finds solace and harmony in the embrace of its habitat. The curves of the body reflect undulating landscapes, while the textures of the skin echo the roughness of bark or the smoothness of river stones. It reminds us that we are not separate from nature but an integral part of it, intricately woven into its tapestry.

ANTHROPOCENE

Since its origins, human beings have always wanted to know and understand nature because their survival depends on it.

In the interaction between human beings and nature, substantialist considerations prevail that strive to find the peculiarities of each of the two identities.

All the elements that make up the human being, starting with each of our cells and ending with the most complex side of our psyche, work for the appearance of signaling links between the organism and the environment.

However, sometimes, society itself and its dizzying pace conditions and limits direct interaction with nature, sheltering us in a cage of disconnection that distances us from something that is absolutely essential for all of us.

CONFLUENCE

This project is an exploration where nature and the human mind converge through glass structures.

Each curve evokes the enigmatic forms of the ocean. Fluid spirals and intricate neural connections pay homage to the hidden poetry in the shapes of water and the depths of the human mind.

Here, ocean currents transform into abstract metaphors, revealing the grace of their anatomy in each fold of glass. Simultaneously, neural connections interlace their gleams in an ethereal dance, capturing the narrative of thoughts flowing like currents in the vast ocean of the human mind. In this series of works, the forms become a visual testimony where ocean tides and thought intertwine, reminding us that, just like the ocean, the human mind is a poetic universe to be explored.

DEHUMANIZED

We will face a dystopian and uncertain future in an increasingly dehumanized and insensitive society where instead of uniting and maintaining a global sense of community and harmony, we are increasingly isolated, keeping ourselves in an existential vacuum where controversy and lack of ethics are promoted.

This work explores this dehumanization of the human being and reflects on the challenges of a technological, globalized and increasingly dying world, through deconstructed human figures maintaining a thread of hope that is hidden behind the eyes of each figure, capable of transmitting sadness, joy, anger or hope.

As Cicero said “The eyes are the mirror of the soul”.

MORGAZMA

In these places, nature and technology come together to give birth to new forms of existence. What once was the imprint of a past society, is now home to organic, strange, and surreal beings that have evolved to adapt to their environment.

Human technology remains have turned into eternal monuments, mechanical fossils that narrate the story of a lost era. The beauty of these life forms lies in their conceptual strength, in the idea of how technology and nature can coexist and create something new.

However, they also make us reflect on our own existence and our impact on the planet, questioning the future and reflecting on the uncertainty and mystery of what is to come.As we delve into each one of them, we witness a visual symphony of organic and inanimate forms intertwining in a dance of life and death. Each structure tells its own story, its own interpretation of the symbiosis between nature and technology.

Mechanical remains, like eternal monuments of the human era, seem to play a nostalgic requiem for the past. And yet, the new life forms that have emerged on them are an affirmation of nature’s ability to adapt and evolve, even in the harshest and strangest environments.

This duality, this tension between the human and the organic, leads us to reflect on the meaning of existence and our relationship with the natural world around us.

MYRKVI

Within the man-nature symbiosis, from a philosophical perspective, from the very beginning man has maintained a relationship through religious, magical and mythical feelings, trying to approach its understanding by imagining nature inhabited by multiple beings.

This relationship is one of the oldest elements of the human mind, which made it possible to highlight the relative uniformity of natural conditions in different places.

Our work MYRKVI delves into this relationship from its origins through a series of images that refer to our supernatural kinship, identifying man with nature linked to cults and rites, maintaining the fundamental belief that earthly life is simply a preparation for a life in the hereafter.

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Art, Creativity, Imagination, Nature, Technology