“A tectonic force emerges from the earth and expresses itself in volcanic, organic, and primary forms, as well as systemic and political ones. I perceive the different expressions of the forces of the world as a language. I seek to lend myself as a somatic platform for the different natural phenomena, through which they find a way to express themselves. My artistic processes are divided into two strands in the service of this search. Both depart from ancient and modern myths, crystallized narratives in which technologies shape identities.

One line of work consists of visualizing and sculpting myths, rites and initiatory journeys. The sun, the volcano, the wind, heat, indigo, coal and plants are invited as co-authors in my artistic processes. I am interested in becoming an agent through which these energies manifest themselves directly. I convey their own agency and intention.

In a second line of work, speculative fiction is my means of inquiring into certain questions within late capitalism. Through the challenge and mockery of western technologies and political discourses, I imagine post-apocalyptic futures in dystopian scenarios that would lead to the paths with which matter coexists.

Throughout my artistic practice, which extends to curating and teaching, I am interested in the transdisciplinary gestures that nurture the processes of reaching out to express the tacit tectonic forces that break through the somatic experience.”

— Gabriel Rodríguez Pellecer, 2024