Madre Drone
2019-2020Inspired 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.
Video installation · Video installation