postnatural ecosystems

2019-ongoing

Postnatural Ecosystems is an environmentally-engaged installation that adopts, protects and reinserts corals into reefs damaged by the effects of climate change, as it is exhibited.

The project is inspired by a series of oceanic restoration techniques, that are currently being implemented at reefs all across the planet. These cultivation and reinsertion methodologies include electrical induction of coral growth, 3D printed bionic corals to cultivate algae symbionts, acoustic enrichment, and assisted coral reproduction techniques, among other strategies.

These highly sophisticated techno-scientific procedures have proven to be successful in accelerating the natural adaptation process of corals to the warming, acidifying waters, and are slowly generating spaces in which the simple traditional notions of the artificial and the natural; the human and the non-human; the biologic, geologic and technologic collide.

As an effort to actively contribute to the ongoing restoration of the ocean’s seafloor from within the exhibition’s space, for every time the work is exhibited, the hosting venue has to actively donate funds to coral farming organizations worldwide.

This project departs from the efforts carried-out in my previous investigation 120MY, available here.

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This work has been fabricated with the generous support of a grant from DKV Collection in collaboration with Matadero Madrid and the Instituto Mutante de Narrativas Ambientales.

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Interactive map detailing the location and documents of corals protected by the project until the present.

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