Crystallizing the Void is a bio-generative installation that addresses the extractive crises of the high Andean salt flats located in the territory known as the Lithium Triangle (Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile), placing tension on the relationship between mineral agency, contemporary technologies, and the energy transition.

The project is based on the collection of more than one thousand satellite images documenting the transformations of these wetlands over recent decades, including extinct lagoons and areas converted into artificial salt flats. From the hydro–geo–morphological patterns present in these images, a generative adversarial network is trained to produce speculative visualizations of possible landscapes of disappearance and transformation.

In the installation, the visualization and sonification of these images are determined by the rhythms of a minimal, slow, and unstable energy generated by three custom sodium-based cells. These open cells regulate the operation of the artificial intelligence model while, in parallel, their evaporation process gradually produces the crystallization of halite, or salt rocks.

The work is structured around a central paradox: an extremely low, situated form of energy influences a technology associated with acceleration, prediction, and high energy consumption, such as artificial intelligence. Crystallizing the Void uses this tension to reflect on the contradictions of an energy transition grounded in mineral extraction, proposing a speculative reading of salt not as a resource, but as an active materiality capable of generating its own rhythms and forms of expression.