MAMBE POTOSI THE INVERSE UNCANNY VALLEY____________________SCULPTURE____________________1.50 MTS X 3.50 MTS________________________________________IN ‘IINVOKING THE GHOSTS OF MODERNITY’ CURATED BY LIVIA NOLASCO-RÓZSÁ (ZKM) AND ESTEBAN GUTIÉRREZ IN [MAMM] THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OF MEDELLIN____________________2025____________________
MAMBE POTOSI THE INVERSE UNCANNY VALLEY____________________SCULPTURE____________________1.50 MTS X 3.50 MTS________________________________________IN ‘IINVOKING THE GHOSTS OF MODERNITY’ CURATED BY LIVIA NOLASCO-RÓZSÁ (ZKM) AND ESTEBAN GUTIÉRREZ IN [MAMM] THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OF MEDELLIN____________________2025____________________
MAMBE POTOSI THE INVERSE UNCANNY VALLEY____________________SCULPTURE____________________1.50 MTS X 3.50 MTS________________________________________IN ‘IINVOKING THE GHOSTS OF MODERNITY’ CURATED BY LIVIA NOLASCO-RÓZSÁ (ZKM) AND ESTEBAN GUTIÉRREZ IN [MAMM] THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OF MEDELLIN____________________2025____________________
MAMBE POTOSI THE INVERSE UNCANNY VALLEY____________________SCULPTURE____________________1.50 MTS X 3.50 MTS________________________________________IN ‘IINVOKING THE GHOSTS OF MODERNITY’ CURATED BY LIVIA NOLASCO-RÓZSÁ (ZKM) AND ESTEBAN GUTIÉRREZ IN [MAMM] THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OF MEDELLIN____________________2025____________________
MAMBE POTOSI THE INVERSE UNCANNY VALLEY____________________SCULPTURE____________________1.50 MTS X 3.50 MTS________________________________________IN ‘IINVOKING THE GHOSTS OF MODERNITY’ CURATED BY LIVIA NOLASCO-RÓZSÁ (ZKM) AND ESTEBAN GUTIÉRREZ IN [MAMM] THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OF MEDELLIN____________________2025____________________
THIS SCULPTURE CONTRASTS THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE ON ARTIFICIALITY, CLOSELY TIED TO RECENT ADVANCES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WITH INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVISM. THE PIECE FEATURES A HEAP OF MAMBE POWDER SUPPORTING A LEVITATING MAGNETIC DISC. MAMBE IS A SACRED SUBSTANCE IN MANY INDIGENOUS AMAZONIAN CULTURES, USED IN RITUALS TO CONNECT WITH SPIRITS, WHILE MAGNETIC RESISTANCE IS ESSENTIAL FOR ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HARDWARE.
THE INSTALLATION STAGES THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MAMBE POWDER AND MAGNETIC LEVITATION, TREATING THESE TWO TECHNOLOGIES AS AN EQUIVOCITY. MULTINATURAL PERSPECTIVISM IMPLIES A FORM OF CONVERSATION THAT INHABITS DIFFERENCE AS THAT WHICH TRAVERSES ALL BODIES, SUGGESTING THAT THE RELATION BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT BODIES LIES IN THEIR DIFFERENT WAYS OF NOT UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER—AND THAT THIS MISUNDERSTANDING IS PRECISELY WHAT THEY SHARE, WHAT ALLOWS A CONVERSATION TO BEGIN.
THE WORK QUESTIONS THE ANTHROPOCENTRIC VIEW OF ARTIFICIALITY, SHIFTING THE FOCUS TOWARD “THE WHO OF THINGS” AND FOSTERING CONNECTIONS WITH MINERAL, PLANT, AND NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCES. ITS GOAL IS TO BREAK FREE FROM THE COLONIAL MINDSET THAT OBJECTIFIES OTHERNESS.
THE INSTALLATION STAGES THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MAMBE POWDER AND MAGNETIC LEVITATION, TREATING THESE TWO TECHNOLOGIES AS AN EQUIVOCITY. MULTINATURAL PERSPECTIVISM IMPLIES A FORM OF CONVERSATION THAT INHABITS DIFFERENCE AS THAT WHICH TRAVERSES ALL BODIES, SUGGESTING THAT THE RELATION BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT BODIES LIES IN THEIR DIFFERENT WAYS OF NOT UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER—AND THAT THIS MISUNDERSTANDING IS PRECISELY WHAT THEY SHARE, WHAT ALLOWS A CONVERSATION TO BEGIN.
THE WORK QUESTIONS THE ANTHROPOCENTRIC VIEW OF ARTIFICIALITY, SHIFTING THE FOCUS TOWARD “THE WHO OF THINGS” AND FOSTERING CONNECTIONS WITH MINERAL, PLANT, AND NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCES. ITS GOAL IS TO BREAK FREE FROM THE COLONIAL MINDSET THAT OBJECTIFIES OTHERNESS.