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Patricia Domínguez: Three Moons Below
17 September - 25 October, 2024Cecilia Brunson Projects presents Three Moons Below, a major new body of work by Chilean artist, educator and activist Patricia Domínguez. As one of the leading creative voices at the intersection of art, science and ecology, Domínguez’s futuristic and otherworldly imagery is shaped by the wide scope of her research which spans South American spiritual practices in plant healing, ethnobotany and cutting-edge scientific thinking. Three Moons Below is the outcome of Domínguez’s Simetría Residency, which gave her access to the quantum physics experiments at CERN as well as the ESO astronomical facilities in Chile. This rare access to each of these spaces enabled Domínguez to produce her most ambitious project so far: an urgent yet playful invocation for a more harmonious relationship between technology and nature.About the artistPatricia Domínguez lives and works in Puchancaví, Chile. Alongside her artistic practice, which spans video installation, painting, ceramics and sculpture, she is the founder of Studio Vegetalista, an experimental platform for ethnobotanical research based in Chile. Domínguez’s multidisciplinary practice is represented in leading programmes in art, science and ecology, currently on view in the exhibition ARTEONICA at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in California as part of the Getty’s PST-ART initiative, and earlier this year in the first Klima Biennale in Vienna, and the Serpentine’s General Ecology programme in London. Other projects and exhibitions this year include: Future Ours, co-curated by Domínguez with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jeppe Ugelvig and currently on view at the UN General Assembly in New York, the Modern Mondays screening series at MoMA, New York (11 November), Cosmotechnics at FACT Liverpool (opening 8 November) and Intinerarios XXIX, Centro Botín in Santander (opening 23 November). -
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‘The new video is the second part of a personal inquiry, which I started in 2021, to broaden my understanding of the invisible. My previous video installation or ‘door’ Matrix Vegetal is the ‘vegetal door’ of the shamanic universe of plant intelligence, and this new work is the mirror ‘video door,’ which explores mysticism and ritual while navigating fundamental science and cutting-edge technologies. The film is a quest of decoding and recoding how we understand reality and how we can shift perspectives… The video ends with CERN’s Large Hadron Collider telling her to go and dream, which ends up being the space where she can finally connect with her entangled particles. I’m trying to embed the video with the experiences that most expanded my thinking during my own ‘pilgrimage’ to these places and concepts.’
– Patricia Domínguez, Burlington Contemporary, September 2024
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