XENOTEXTEC

The central piece is composed of 40 images generated by DALLE-2, an AI that creates them from descriptions in natural language. With its help, I tried to repair and rebuild a textile work of mine that no longer exists. Iconographic variations, bots, little bears and a tender gesture emerged on their own from the AI. A textile patch from the Zapatist Chiapas culture where the center piece is a hooded person with a giant corn and the phrase “Resistance and Rebelliousness” appears at the center, contaminating (or vindicating?) the work. The piece is custodied by a band used during transmutation rites in the sacred valleys of Calca, Peru. With this work, I explore the limits of coexistence between the human and the machine, the technicality and the thing, aiming to give a new dimension to the fusion attempts in the artificial/human crossing, delving into the peripheries that tell of an intersection territory and the debate on the symbolic and the sacred that leads to a struggle between the genuine and the intruder.