Reticulation
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2024
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The work engages with archival images from the early days of 20th-century microscopic cinematography to question the construction of “life” as an epistemological entity. To do so, we return to Foucault, who presents the notion of life as a result of the establishment of biology as a scientific discipline in the 19th century.
By appropriating the language of the scientific documentary, we observe cellular behavior and develop an audiovisual narrative that traces technological advances in the creation and capture of scientific imagery. The work reappropriates archival material alongside AI-generated images and Indigenous Kaiowá corn cosmo-technics. It employs an image-expansion algorithm to cultivate the growth of an artificial cellular tissue.
By challenging traditional and colonial perspectives on knowledge production, it opens alternative sensibilities, symbolically engaging with states of becoming that define life and reproduction. Using repetition as metaphor, the work interweaves corn kernels, genetically modified organisms, metastasis, spirits, and synthesized images in layered audiovisual compositions.