Sara Muñoz - umbiosis caduca (eng)

A place has been found where the body has broken to expand, where the organ has fallen and has been re-signified as an individual being. It is a space of muscle, an ecosystem that discovers the symbiosis after the impact. In it, hollows and protuberances are formed that evoke the image of the body from within. In it, wounds stop healing as scabs and heal in the form of mother-of-pearl, and organs mutate their skin like shells. It is the home of ghosts, an environment of adaptation and rest.

umbiosis caduca (2023) is a research project that explores the body from its expansion and its expiration. In it, the artist questions functionality, or what we currently understand as such, thinking the body beyond its established limits and imagining the possible creation and loss of dysfunctional organs. Through speculation, a new conception of the organ is proposed while developing the idea of progress as a failure in the face of the need for human improvement.

The installation proposal consists of a series of polychrome air-drying clay sculptures that find in the exhibition space a place of comfort and adaptation. These pieces, which are conceived as dysfunctional organs, arise from the search for various concepts, such as the hollow, the void or the fold, in the body itself.

This project was part of the group exhibition Umbral-L Stôre (2023) at the Pradiauto gallery and was revisited in the exhibition Órgano Huérfano (2024) at the i23 gallery in Madrid.