Emilio Chapela. Afluentes / Tributaries

January 18th - March 30th, 2024

E CIENTO NOVENTA

Calle de Antonio Maura, 18. Madrid. Spain

E Ciento Veinte opens its doors in Madrid with a selection of 15 by Emilio Chapela's most recent works. In Afluentes/Tributaries, the artist takes an acute look at the complex relationship between humans and other forms of life. From a compendium of videos, installations, paintings and images generated through artificial intelligence, the idea of "tributaries" is revealed; alluding to the way in which we are all tributaries of an intricate network of relationships and consequences. In the current environmental crisis, rivers are revealed as the anguished witnesses of a narrative that Walter Benjamin's Angelus Novus would observe with regret. In the vast fabric of the "pluriverse" we inhabit, these bodies of water stand as living arteries that connect, like the threads of the tapestry, over which the very history of civilisation is woven.

This multidisciplinary artist develops his practice at the intersections of science and technology with the visual arts, dedicating his work to a deep understanding of nature and its phenomena, questioning the ways in which we as societies relate to the environment.

Interested in the natural sciences and ecology, Chapela uses art as a research methodology to investigate notions such as time and space, light, stars, gravity, climate, rocks, plants, volcanoes and rivers.

Chapela is co-founder, together with Lisa Blackmore and Diego Chocano, of the collective project entre-ríos, an initiative that seeks to bring together art and science projects dedicated to the research and care of bodies of water.

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