Preservation Instinct

Preservation instinct, 2017

Installation

The installation makes use of archival elements and the museum format. Several exhibition rooms are chock-full of things: objects that are neither human nor natural in form but resemble exoskeletons of extinct beings, models, samples, test tubes and laboratory flasks with unknown substances, as well as sketches, drawings, maps, and blueprints that seem, at first, to organize the “collection” and put it in order. These objects are strange and mysterious, they seem to suggest the appearance of a “post-human” world in which differences between organic nature and non-organic matter have been effaced and animals and plant species have mutated, adapted or changed so much that they have become unrecognizable. These artifacts and relics may well be the remains of the diversity of the world, bringing life to a barren apocalyptic landscape.