Paula Proaño Mesías

  1. A Thousand Eyes Beneath the Tide
  2. The Llama That Kindles the Wetland
  3. Pulverizing the World, but Also Spiritualizing Its Dust
  4. May the Illusion Be Nourished by the Whisper of the Wind, Not by the Sedative Modern Spell
  5. On Trans-Spirit, Technobodies and the Family of Tukã
  6. Chimeras
  7. Hyperbeccus (On Transhuman Artifacts)
  8. Grecia (On Repair Mechanisms)
  9. Elizabeth (On Surgical Musical Instruments)
  10. Tukã (On Domestication Devices)
  11. Íyi (On Mystical and Sacred Objects)
  12. Translucent Matter
  13. Studies on Zoo-Physiologic Modification: Grecia
  14. Untitled
  15. Sustenance

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P014 → Untitled


‘Untitled’, stills, four-channel video installation, digital video 2K, loop, 2023

Photo: Martina Avilés


Installation view of the exhibition ‘Affectus’, Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión Bellavista, Quito, 2023.

‘Affectus’ is a project that hybridizes the aesthetic and conceptual universes inherent in reconstructive medical sciences, biological sciences, ancestral artifacts, and animal domestication instruments; distilling these categories into sculptural pieces that allude to the reconstructive prosthesis of Grecia (the toucan), the first bird to have received a beak prosthesis.

Four-channel video installation, construction struts
Variable dimensions
2023

Filmed across three locations, Tandayapa (Ecuador), Puerto Iguazú (Argentina), and Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil).