"Ground spirits" is a site-specific garbage dump, a living graveyard where cheap mechanical toys, garbage bags, led lights, videos, batteries, plastic, dead plants, water, soil and rust predominate.
The petroleum that gives form to toys, the plastic that covers space and objects, and garbage bags is essentially the fossilization of dead organisms. Similarly, batteries are made of elements directly related to life, such as carbon, zinc and potassium. By focusing on the geochemical origins of objects, Earth Spirits recalls the remnants of vitality in the material of toys that move aimlessly; it searches for the issue of vitality and consciousness through different concentrations scattered throughout nature, rather than specific objects (humans, advanced artificial intelligence robots, etc.).
Disassembled toys with rusted batteries or flayed surfaces, the cell-trash bags that collect them, the plastic that constitutes both the environment and the object, toy dinosaur eggs that are activated by water, videos of koi fish swimming in a plastic lake, plastic fruit that has released its dye into the water, the remnants of an ecosystem that collapsed or never existed.
The agglomerated islands and the different stages of production resemble a workshop under the stairs, a shooting studio, a disused greenhouse or warehouse; images and the machines that produce them; no background, no foreground; hybrid atmospheres.
These atmospheres are composed not only of gases, but of everything that gas permeates. Plastic compresses and becomes a toy, expands and becomes a nylon curtain; its smell fills the lungs of those who enter it. An event compresses and becomes an object, an object expands and becomes an event. An event that has not found its form, an event that does not intend to find its form.