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What is natural, and what is artificial? How are technological developments affecting how we experience and shape our daily lives and imagine our future? In their art practice, Paula Garcia Sans (1993) investigates questions like these. Garcia Sans makes sculptures but mainly works with 3D software to create dreamlike games and video installations that explore interactions between humans and machines.
For The Hatching (2025) Garcia Sans was inspired by an initiative of a group of Catalan farmers who decided to use drones to prevent birds from damaging their crops. This prompted the artist to research the various ways in which people have been trying to exert their influence on the land via the air. In the images they created on the basis of this research, the drone’s artificial, machine-operated intelligence is set off against that of a falcon: a creature of flesh and blood that for centuries has been used for similar purposes as the drone.
At Prospects, Garcia Sans is showing two sculptures made of glass, stone, and wax, as well as a video featuring animations and drawings created with the help of 3D software. The video is projected onto two glass panels that face each other at a 90-degree angle. Each glass panel also reflects the images projected onto the other, which results in an eerie effect. In this endless reflection everything becomes intertwined: the drone and the falcon, new and old technology, artificial and natural.
Text: Sarah van Binsbergen
Translated from Dutch by Marie Louise Schoondergang (The Art of Translation)