N.A.S.A.L. is pleased to present Deseos Modernos by Luis Enrique Zela-Koort.
The work of Peruvian artist and researcher Luis Enrique Zela-Koort (Peru, 1994) explores notions of artificiality, organicity, transformation, and the tensions of materiality that permeate the virtual world. His sculptures and videos form interactive baroque installations that articulate digital tools with traditional processes, constructing metafictions that intervene in a reality in constant flux.
In his work, Zela-Koort reveals that in the world we inhabit there is no rigid separation between the organic and the artificial. The ways of seeing the world established by modernity fracture when confronted with the organic nature of reality. The exhibition challenges the notion of “modern desire”—modes of exploiting the planet driven by a modernizing human impulse that has taken shape as a violent desire, a compulsion to transform natural reality into artificial constructions that use the machine both as a mechanism and as a symbol.