Ruins in reverse (2024)

Ruins in Reverse is an audiovisual installation created using generative neural network algorithms (AI), virtual spaces, and digital fabrication techniques. It presents a fictional scenario of alternate timelines where radical transformations of fossilized beings and minerals manifest, straining the material structures of the living.

 

 

 

By reflecting on the materialities that compose the Earth, we observe a network of transformations between life and death that circulates in cycles across immeasurable time. 

 

The line separating these two concepts exceeds any taxonomy and dissolves, revealing the traces that shape the space we inhabit today. Everything that constitutes our material life contains the history of the planet: fuels, minerals, architecture, and contemporary technologies.

Some dystopian imaginaries depict human cities as ruins, where only traces of humanity and its transformations remain. However, if we trace backward the material history of architectural structures, we conclude that what we now understand as mineral matter is merely a point in an infinite chain of cyclical and successive vital transformations.

The discovery of fossilized Ammonites—beings that inhabited the planet millions of years ago and now form part of the vast mass of Earth’s mineral matter—reveals that there is no real separation between animal, plant, and mineral bodies. In some cases, their morphology managed to evade the passage of time, becoming indicators of the geological conditions of different eras.

This work proposes a radical visualization of the organic-mineral relationships and transformations of fossilized beings. To achieve this, it utilizes information extracted from open databases on the morphological patterns of Ammonites, beings whose bodies have become markers of planetary geological changes.

Exhibitions:

2024 | Tecnopoiesis – Casa Nacional del Bicentenario [ARG]

Credits:

Year: 2024

Curator: Agustina Rinaldi

Technical Assistance: Santiago Fernández García

Audio Mixing: Julia Rossetti

Photo/Video: Francesca Cantore