EXOSCAPES bring the natural presence of a landscape directly into the work. DNA specimens extracted in situ from the Atlantic Forest of Brazil (São Paulo region) , one of the most biodiverse and most devastated biomes on the planet, are integrated into photographic registries of the same landscape. The photograph registers the place; the biological material carries what the place materially is. The installation moves through a biological cycle of light: in daylight the photographic surface is exposed to changing light, while as darkness falls the DNA, mixed with luminescent material, reveals itself, tracing the biological presence of the territory across the image. This proximity between artistic representation and the biological presence of the geography is not only a collapse of the distance between viewer and territory, challenging the Culture-Nature dichotomy, but also a self-critique of the epistemic extractivism that tends to produce an idealized experience of landscape, displacing the territory’s own agency.  Leaning into the subtractive de-anthropocentric framing to challenge both human and machine logic:

the Exoscape Photographic Registry was generated through randomization, a process that in its purity can only be obtained via natural phenomena and that was invented, paradoxically, by humans precisely to eliminate human bias. The image is thus subjected to a noise outside the jurisdiction of either. What results is a landscape that has begun to escape its own representation;

the Exoscape Membranes follow a material process, they enclose found and ready-made objects into a translucent surface, shifting attention from object/image to material presence.

The EXOSCAPES project is part of an ongoing artistic and scientific enquire grounded in a single premise: that systems reveal their real structure not at their center, but at the boundary of their capacity. Working at the edges of ecological, technological, and representational systems, the series takes the limit not as an endpoint but as an epistemologically productive site. EXOSCAPES first works originated in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, one of the most biodiverse biomes on the planet, now fragmented beyond its capacity to sustain itself.