daniela brill estrada
Living Alive Life Like
brill estrada’s project explores matter at the intersection of geochemistry and biochemistry and artistically explores its structures and relations, focusing on materials used in the biological laboratories to look into the behavior, cycles, and complex systems of life. “Turning the figures of life and matter around and around, worrying them until they start to seem strange” as described in Jane Bennett’s book, giving it an artistic as well as political and philosophical venture. This process creates an opening for a material anarchy, as brill estrada describes, the project questions care and binaries – not necessarily alive or part of the world, and gives a space for elements such as minerals, polymers, and others to be part of the complex mesh of existences that enable life to exist on this planet.
daniela brill estrada
daniela brill estrada is an artist from Bogotá living and working in Vienna. Daniela's creative process is nourished by her interest in complexity sciences, aesthetics and non-hierarchical structures of knowledge, and is based on the idea of indisciplinarity, constructed with the Suratómica Network, of which she is co-organizer. In collaboration with particle physicists, researchers of the origin of life and astrobiologists, daniela's work is focused on de-hierarchizing matter and eliminating binary western taxonomies and categories, particularly that of life-non-life. In her work, daniela uses matter that mutates, changes and interacts to make visible the information processes of different bodies.