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Machine
Set of components linked to each other, created to exploit the action of a
force and transforming it into another matter to generate a certain effect.
The individual specialized in the creation of machines, replicants, gundams.
Technological parts on the bodies, synthetic skins, digital weapons, AKIRA and cybernetic organisms.
This project is located in a fictitious space where time is not linear, where imaginaries coincide timelessly, thought by different agents in different latitudes, where the individual re-learns how to interact with its own habitat, creates machines for survival, and uses the knowledge accumulated over centuries but without the ease of industrialization.
Where machine does not make itself, it is the domestication of matter, force and heat of the body that builds it. The pause and the development of the object exists in the organic, there is no industrial form that can accelerate the process of creation, only harmony with four elements.Extracted earthControlled water
Reserved air
Contained fire
Damp earth to attain mud
Water to bind, to knead the clay - to make it malleable / workable.
Air to dry the clay object
Fire to burn the clay objectMobile Suit is a metaphor to understand that the greatest refuge and protection is the principle of manual / artisan creation.
Under the definition of the machine, we seek to produce analogies and similarities between the energy creation processes and the creation of ceramic objects.
The extractivism of natural matter from the earth is the basic principle and the means for the creation of technological objects, extraction of metals and raw materials to create nano chips and robotic elements. Here, we return to the traditional practice of the ceramics, rethinking the hyper-production processes with which technological machines are manufactured. Contravention of rudimentary and manual processes.
For the creation of these pieces, forms and imaginaries from series and animes are used, whose narratives are machines as human instrument that achieve the development of present and future historical moments of humanity, visualizing conflicts and possible solutions in the face of an imminent extinction. The objects present the same tonal range, a resolution that links the pieces together and generates a harmony with the space; an abyss where the future, present and past can converge.
- Jou Morales and David Zafra
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Installation view of Mobile Suite: Jou Morales & David Zafra, Campeche, Mexico City, 2023 Campeche
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Installation view of Mobile Suite: Jou Morales & David Zafra, Campeche, Mexico City, 2023
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Installation view of Mobile Suite: Jou Morales & David Zafra, Campeche, Mexico City, 2023. Image credits: Ramiro Chaves @whitebalancemx
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Installation view of Mobile Suite: Jou Morales & David Zafra, Campeche, Mexico City, 2023Image credits: Ramiro Chaves @whitebalancemx
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"Mobile Suit is a metaphor to understand that the greatest refuge and protection is the principle of manual/artisan creation."
- Jou Morales and David Zafra
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