Signs and Spectres is a collaborative project between Luis Enrique Zela-Koort and Pablo Andino. The proposal investigates the unseen forces of Desire; mobilizing production and consumption in the self-actualization of collective realities. Their works reflect on how these energies inhabit objects and materials through ghostly and ritualistic forms. The possession by Desires constantly flowing through us.
Andino transforms remnants of nightlife into textured tempura drawings and sculptural compositions. His work recontextualizes everyday waste as relics of human interaction, creating hypnotic shrines that memorialize yearning and solitude. Brought from an imagination of empty bars and smokey alleys, these objects remain as witnesses of decadent leisure, repetition, and altered states of being.
Zela’s works engage with the containment and release of Desire, assembling objects in metal and glass, inflatables, and silicone. Challenging the boundaries between body and context; creating organic forms in industrial materials. Bulging through metal, expansive compositions reminiscent of organs, smoke and fluids speak of excess, of Desire overflowing modern control. Distorting the symbolic membranes separating inside/outside, culture/nature.
Together, both artists emphasize the transit of Desire through capital, into our bodies, and transmitted to objects now haunted by this otherworldly force. Sustained in their work through dedicated material research, Zela’s specters are unrelenting, at the edge of climax, utilizing kink and technology to manifest alternate social configurations from a queer, techno-ritualistic sensibility. Andino’s entities evoke an animism in which objects are brought to life by collective energies. This collaboration allows new worlds to flourish beyond binary thought, as they let desires leak beyond predetermined structures.
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