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Installation, 2010 Asphalt collected pieces Variable dimensions
Sculpture, 2010 Bricks, mirrors, iron tap, water, and electro-mechanics 60x50x40cm
Sculpture, 2010 Wood, aluminum, brass, galvanized and bricks 180x180x50cm
Sculpture, 2010 Chemically aged steel sheet 65x80cm
Installation, 2010 Bricks, crushed bricks, wood frame and glass 120x180cm
Installation, 2010 Asphalt collected pieces Variable dimensions
Sculpture, 2010 Bricks, mirrors, iron tap, water, and electro-mechanics 60x50x40cm
Sculpture, 2010 Wood, aluminum, brass, galvanized and bricks 180x180x50cm
Sculpture, 2010 Chemically aged steel sheet 65x80cm
Installation, 2010 Bricks, crushed bricks, wood frame and glass 120x180cm
Provoked Archaeologies #2
Installation, 2019
Excavated soil in the Amazonia rainforest, branches, and sisal rope
Variable Measures
Drift. 2016
Black geometrical elements slowly spin in a perpetual circular motion over a dark-fluid base. They remind of an architectonic scale-model and when spinning, the plastic reflexive surface gives delicately twinkles as a jewel on a display.
The light activates the sensors and keeps the system in a constant movement, but once the light source is blocked the system's motion is abruptly interrupted. When the system stops, immediately two triangular-shaped elements start to move very subtly and just like in a compass they search for north and south as if trying to find directions from inside that constant spinning system.
The Metropole is one of the main symbols of the modern era, the highest levels of civilization's development. The work questions the aura of power and desire that underpins the paradigm of modern society also contained in monumental structures built through the exploitation of resources and in the growth of production and consumption, guided by the domination of the petrochemical industry.
Drift
Sculpture, 2016
Polycarbonate, 3D prints, oil and electro-mechanics
50 x 55 x 170 cm