SELECTED PROJECTS

PROXY documents an artistic intervention in two stone quarries in Guidonia, Italy: one active and the other abandoned, undergoing vegetal regeneration within a post-industrial landscape. The work deploys a sculptural fragment replicated through 3D printing (PLA biopolymer) from the sculpture Galvarino by José Miguel Blanco, activating it as a proxy body that articulates a relationship and transfer between sculptural heritage, geological violence, and territory. The mutilation of the Mapuche warrior’s body and the fragmentation of the quarry’s geological body are read as homologous forms of violence, produced through colonial and extractivist logics.

In this gesture, the colonial monument is detached from its representational function and reconfigured as a material trace of territorial mutilation, where extraction and vegetal regeneration coexist as asymmetrical temporalities, without erasing the persistent mark of human intervention.

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As part of the Erosion Mechanics project, which investigates the relationship between contemporary art and the lithic industry through a series of procedural and visual exercises, these explorations are developed through fieldwork-based dialogue between the sculptural and documentary heritage of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) and the travertine extraction zone of delle Acque Albule in Italy. All of this is framed within a theoretical context that brings together media theory, new materialism, and posthumanism.