Artists

Mané Pacheco

Press release

Mané Pacheco's artistic practice investigates unstable zones of contact between nature, technology and industrial production, proposing hybrid ecologies in which organisms, materials and infrastructures become indistinguishable. The artist incorporates potentially toxic or contaminated substances that go far beyond functioning merely as critical traces of a waste economy. From her work emerge visual devices evoking intruder-creatures: ambiguous forms between organism and artefact that seem to emerge from disturbed ecosystems. In Brama, Mané Pacheco transforms the exhibition space into a territory traversed by a vibration running through a landscape recognisable in its ontological (de)formation. The brama — the deep bellow emitted by deer during the rut — is a sound of presence and dispute, a gesture through which the creature occupies the territory and affirms its body. More than a zoological reference, the brama introduces into the exhibition an almost ritual intensity, installing a field of tension between attraction, confrontation and reproduction. In this environment, the works emerge as hybrid beings, constructed from organic materials and waste from vernacular economies of reuse. The exhibition (re)configures an ecosystem of materials, bodies and debris reorganised into mutant organisms, suggesting resilient forms of life in the zones of friction between nature and industry. Curated by Ana Cristina Cachola.