2022

This work is a hybrid, a symbiotic construction between reality and fiction, between an organic dimension and a technological, human-non-human dimension. But it is not a dualistic approach but a permanent tension that is not solved in favor of either pole.

It is a cyborg body -cybernetic organism- built in 3d printing and biotextiles that act as skin and expands beyond the body surface creating new territories that, at the same time, create new bodies, not canonical, in a process of continuous mutation. It is not a skin that contains a closed body as a biological unit but a porous boundary that destabilizes the idea of a body with an identity prior to the technology that inhabits it. It starts from the idea that identity is fictitious or a collective fantasy that manifests itself in the belief that one is always the same.

The skin that detaches and takes over space does not replicate or copy an "original" body but creates it; It becomes a place alien to its own body, it has autonomy. That is why there is no subject with a previous identity but a “mestizo” being -cyborg- in constant transformation.

In the biological subject, the skin operated as a memory inscription surface on which endless experiences were fixed; on the contrary, in the cyborg body the skin is not passive but a mobile, open, porous place, part of a fragmented body in constant inscription.

This cyborg is a kind of chimerical creature -being formed by different animals in the mythological sense and by cells with different DNA, in the biological sense-, halfway between machine and organism. This organism is inscribed in a post-human narrative to which we must adapt through creative strategies, to a changing environment, to make it habitable. The skin is the protagonist of this adaptation, that is why it expands and creates new territories commanding the mutation of an obsolete body that no longer accounts for the environment in which it is framed. This dermis will create a new body adapted to the needs of changes, an organism not colonized by internal representations where the very concept of subject -in a psychoanalytic sense- is in crisis; a body of fiction and social reality, without previous references, as proclaimed by Donna Haraway in her Cyborg Manifesto.
A question that my work raises is where memory will be inscribed in a non-biological body. Will it be in the body-skin, body interface, in constant mutation? What role does the human have in this process?