Tropical Futurology (2021)
Tropical Futurology is a visual manifesto of icons, monuments and imagery that represents the values of a speculative epoch of vegetal reverence.
It’s an exploration of new ways to represent nature based on the experience of being immersed in Costa Rica’s tropical Caribbean. This particular work of exploration dips into the idea of plant as subject. Unfolding like a curtain of icons, revealing a series of constructive capabilities and an attempt to co-create on par with nature and thus designing monuments to the recovery of a ritual existence and re-imagining individuality.
Installation view. Museum of Contemporary Art and Design. Costa Rica. 2021 276x273cm
Tropical Futurology 12 drawings, charcoal on Strathmore 168gsm paper.
69x91cm ea 276x 273 all together
This project was created during “Next Season: Art and Science in the Face of the Climate Future “ an art residency and exhibition supported by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC), the Directorate of Climate Change of the Costa Rican Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) and the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)