Tentakelförmig (Tentaculario)
Mixing both the idea of scientific investigation and xenomorphous bodies, this arthropod creature explores the breeding morphologies of the gestational process of worlds and -beyond human- relationships that operate directly on the dermis of the social fabric and, therefore, in the building of a web of collective memory.
Over the course of 30 days, this synthetic organism of cyclical nature coexisted within the urban life inside the U-Bahn station as part of Ventana Into The Swamp exhibition, pumping and expulsing dark liquids through its prosthetically designed arteries.
Dialoguing viscerally with the liquid stage of matter this installation invited the public to reflect on a suspended time — where past and future puncture the present simultaneously.
Threads unveil the interconnected nature of vessels. They create autonomous forms of inter webbed expression of their own, inhabiting these bodies as reminders of our condition of entities in flux; yet, carrying information that is ancestral and has been programmed before us: fluidity, viscosity, and transparency, as inevitable conditions of the self's decay.
Deeply entangled with the nature of the swamp, organisms may reproduce through humidity trapped inside of the glass vitrine and grow from the pond, we may think of this parasitical life as a result of entering a state of co-participation with other states of existence.
Contained and confined, like inside of a laboratory test tube or a museum’s cabinet, the paradigm of who is observing who adds to an uncanny feeling of codependency. Yet, allowing to experience a liminal space of in betweenness – life growing and existing within of life.