Metamorphosis

In Metamorphosis, the androgenous figures that inhabit the structures appropriate the exhibition space by spilling beyond conventional boundaries. Inspired by demonology, church doors, and religious symbology in an alchemy that also draws on the imaginary worlds of science fiction and fantasy, these figures emanate sexuality and confidence, eliciting horror and attraction simultaneously. The depicted bodies borrow elements from our world and fuse them with elements from the Chthulucene, a term first introduced by the esteemed biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway to describe the space-time in which humanity finds itself in the midst of ecological crisis and social challenges. The fluidity between these bodies—between the human and the nonhuman, the material and the ethereal—is conceived as a means of re-establishing relationships and “making kin” with other species and entities in collaboration and in solidarity. 

(Text written by TBA21 for the exhibition Liquid Intelligence, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2023-2024)