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Patricia Domínguez, Tres Lunas más Abajo (Three moons Below) (2024). Analog picture captured by Emilia Martín, 2024. Commissioned by Arts at CERN with the support of Beca de Arte Botín and Cecilia Brunson Projects.
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Cosmotechnics

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Discover immersive installations that reveal how plants can transform technology into an ally for resistance, resilience, and growth.

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This winter, you are invited to explore the worlds of Cosmotechnics, a new exhibition that delves into the relationship between culture and technology through the lens of four Latin American artists and collectives. Atractor Studio + Semantica, Patricia Domínguez and Rebeca Romero challenge the idea that technology is the same everywhere and across all cultures. Using sculpture, video, and sound to create immersive installations, their works reveal how local ways of thinking and sensing can lead to new ways of embracing art and culture and offer multiple perspectives of technology.

Curated by our Curator-in-Residence, Beatrice Zaidenberg, each artwork becomes a portal to rethink our relationship with technology, using plants as a guide.

Atractor Studio A Tale of Two Seeds Sound and Silence in Latin Americas Andean Plains Photo by tom mesic

Atractor Studio + Semantica, A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin Americas Andean Plains (2023). Photo by Tom Mesic

Atractor Studio + Semantica present their award-winning video and sound works, A Tale of Two Seeds, On Vegetal Politics and Botánica Transgénica. Based in Colombia and the UK, both collectives create artworks to visualise natural events and scientific ideas. These works focus on the problems caused by industrial farming: specifically, how companies change plant genes (genetic modification) and take control of seeds and land in Colombia, leading to colonisation and exploitation of native plants and local knowledge. In 2023, the presented works received the coveted Golden Nica at The Prix Ars Electronica, the world’s longest-running media art competition. 

Patricia Domínguez, Tres Lunas más Abajo (Three moons Below) (2024). Analog picture captured by Emilia Martín, 2024. Commissioned by Arts at CERN with the support of Beca de Arte Botín and Cecilia Brunson Projects.

Patricia Domínguez, Tres Lunas más Abajo (Three moons Below) (2024). Analog picture captured by Emilia Martín, 2024. Commissioned by Arts at CERN with the support of Beca de Arte Botín and Cecilia Brunson Projects.

Patricia Domínguez, born and based in Chile, combines her research on plants, resource extraction, and healing practices to create sculptures, videos, and writings that imagine more sustainable and compassionate ways of living. In Cosmotechnics, Patricia presents two works side by side for the first time, developed during her dual residency between CERN in Switzerland and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomy facilities in Chile. Tres Lunas Más Abajo (Three Moons Below) (2024) and Matrix Vegetal (2022) reflect Patricia’s ongoing exploration of the energy that connects all living things and objects on Earth.

Chrysalis 2024

Rebeca Romero, Chrysalis (2024). Image courtesy of the artist

Rebeca Romero presents a newly commissioned installation for Cosmotechnics. Born in Peru and based in London, her work blends pre-Columbian iconography with modern technology to ask how new technologies can revive ancient belief systems erased from history. In Rebeca’s futuristic sculpture, Chrysalis (2024), she combines ancient wisdom with video mapping, 3D scanning and printing to form a speculative allyship between plants and humans. Rebeca was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021. More recently, she was awarded the OGR Award for effectively conveying complex relationships between art, technology, and innovation. 

Header image: Patricia Domínguez, Tres Lunas más Abajo (Three moons Below) (2024). Analog picture captured by Emilia Martín, 2024. Commissioned by Arts at CERN with the support of Beca de Arte Botín and Cecilia Brunson Projects.

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Special Event

Exhibition Opening: Cosmotechnics

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Join us after hours to celebrate the opening of Cosmotechnics. Be the first to see a new exhibition and enjoy a social evening filled with art, film and culture plus a live DJ set from Dance for Plants.

Image: Rebeca Romero performing at Promises from Paradise, The NewBridge Project. Photo by Matt Denham

Tour, Performance

Cosmotechnics Curator Tour & Rebeca Romero Performance

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Explore Cosmotechnics through Beatrice's expert lens as she guides you through the innovative artworks and their underlying themes. Following the tour, enjoy a special performance by Rebeca Romero.

Rebeca Romero portrait

Workshop, Studio/Lab

Rebeca Romero Masterclass

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Delve into the creative world of interdisciplinary artist Rebeca Romero in this artist masterclass. Take inspiration from her practice which explores concepts of diasporic identity, truth, fiction, and their relationship to the digital age.

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