Artists today face numerous challenges in the process of developing ideas and artistic projects. One of these, often imperceptible yet profoundly influential, is the strategic incorporation of global trends such as technologies, production processes, and systems, now increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and the personalization of content. These mechanisms influence and condition the ways in which different audiences imagine and experience aesthetic creation.

The art circuits capitalize on these mechanisms as opportunities to diversify access channels for art consumers, thereby strengthening the value chain. Beyond these external and functional dimensions, artistic creation is a stance—where the manifestation of ideas, persistence in plastic explorations, the uniqueness of intent, the constant re-signification of materials, and the exhibition of projects and works serve as an exception to the rule dictated by such trends.

In this sense, artworks operate as a space for thought, where success or failure in artistic formats is not the primary concern. Instead, they question how media and processes are increasingly stripped of the discoveries, deviations, and detours inherent to the creative act—an act rooted in the transformation of things.

Volumes of objects covered in textile skins act as gestures questioning the dichotomy and tension between protection and abolition; crystallized salt faces emerge as traces of sedimented memories resisting oblivion; hollow concrete shells, pierced and eroded by the fragility of a displaced and exiled nature, stand as some of the elements presented here.

For this reason, Ex Materia, primarily sculptural in nature, explores materiality beyond its physical dimension, questioning the aura that reveals the origin and becoming of its presence. The works serve as sources of provocation, rupture, and legacy, manifesting their relationship with a substratum that is at once discovery, meaning, and symbol. They address concerns about the conditions that extend the inherent value of things, as they stand as evidence of their own evolution.