Inspired by the spread of wildfires in Bolivia as well as social protests in Chile in 2019, Madre Drone questions technological state surveillance through a story of multi-species resistance. The installation merges myths, symbols, and rituals with ideas of extraction, cultural appropriation, and natural destruction due to industrialisation. Domínguez’s video and totemic sculptures take the fragments of a broken world and propose new configurations for living in a strange reality in which plants neutralise robotic energy, drones cry, and toucans have been blinded by fire. Beyond the destructive forces of colonialism and its legacy, Domínguez proposes a healing space where viewers might live, like plants, in the cracks of post-modernity.
Madre Drone, 2020
Video Installation, 20‘51“
Multi species offerings, 2019
Yerbateras, 2020
A.C.A.B, 2020
The Blind Toucan, 2020
Commissioned by CentroCentro (Madrid) and produced by Residency Kiosko, (Bolivia) and Galería Patricia Ready (Chile).
Patricia Domínguez explores healing practices that work against colonial-capitalist extraction and appropriation. Grounded in her ongoing research into ethnobotany in South America, her artwork invites viewers to envision possible futures for both humans and plant life, creeping out of the cracks of (post)modernity.
Production Uri Carrasco y Patricia Domínguez. Photography Director Juan Eduardo Serna. Drone images by Eduardo Osorio y Claudia Belaunde, Roboré 2019. Protests images by Ce Pams and Emilia Martín, Santiago 2019. Costume design: Serpent: Edson Maraz, Robot: Jorge Mollinedo de SOARY y Carlos Romeo de JC PROPS, Bolivia. Actors Andrés Achivade Menacho y Romina Avalos. Music by Futuro Fósil. Video Editing Patricia Domínguez. Thanks to Refugio Biotermal de Roboré, Teatro Experimental Universitario, Raquel Schwartz, Galería Patricia Ready.
