“A specific configuration of cells and proteins that provide her with the human experience,” Laura Elidedt Rodriguez is a Mexican artist based in St Petersburg, where she curates the Bioart: Biomeda and New Nature programme of the Art&Science Centre of ITMO University. Using her background in Biotechnology Engineering and Molecular Biology, she explores possible posthuman futures and the deepness of the matter through experimenting with electronics, bacterias, cells, and mythologies. As an independent curator, she worked on such projects as Staying with the Trouble (AIR) and Pangardenia: Ars Electronica.
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Becoming Plant, 2021. Bioart Showcase, AIR Gallery, St Petersburg. Through decellularising the vegetal tissue, this project exposes the transparency and fragility surrounding notions of identity and its relationship to body image and form
Becoming Plant, 2021. AIR Gallery. Removing living cells from their original structure is one of the ways in which form is deconstructed through technoscientific interventions
Becoming Plant, 2021. AIR Gallery. The speculative experiment of becoming other imagines a transformation where our ability of perception, thoughts, and movement are shifted towards the values of a plant
Ghost Plants, 2021––present (with Evgeny Khlopotov). Photo: @luba_ne_ori. A reflection on life and death, this stunning installation shows us decellularised forms and structures of plants
Ghost Plants, 2021––present (with Evgeny Khlopotov). Photo: @luba_ne_ori. Through 3D mapping, the artists visualise the presence of the soul inside the decellularised bodies of flowers
Ghost Plants, 2021––present (with Evgeny Khlopotov). Photo: @luba_ne_ori. As we see the decellularised skeletons of plants, our ability to recognise forms allows us to still perceive them as plants
Ghost Plants, 2021––present (with Evgeny Khlopotov). Photo: @luba_ne_ori
Ghost Plants, 2021––present (with Evgeny Khlopotov). Photo: @luba_ne_ori
Knitting Water, 2021. Inspired by the rivers of St Petersburg and the oceans around Mexico, as well as the fact that our bodies contain water in about the same ratio as Earth does, Rodriguez sets out to explore this element
Knitting Water, 2021. The artist brings together the concept of water with the activity of knitting, which she finds a therapeutic exercise for anxiety, where you can construct and design new forms
Knitting Water, 2021. Through the analysing and encapsulating the samples into strings of alginates, Rodriguez rewrites and reconstructs the stories told by the water
Touchless, 2020. AIR Gallery and VIVUS/DOMUM. This interactive installation explores the interaction of light with inert matter, and the use of this interaction and new materials to transmit tactile sensations
Touchless, 2020. Created in the pandemic, the projects looks for a way to feel human touch at a distance through imagining augmented fabrics (our second skin) and substances like bacterial cellulose (kombucha) and titanium dioxide
