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Body tubes / Copper tube, plastic hose, metal stands, water pump, surgical aspirator, and Cauca river water  / Variable dimensions / 2019 

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Body tubes / Copper tube, plastic hose, metal stands, water pump, surgical aspirator, and Cauca river water  / Variable dimensions / 2019 

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Captura de pantalla 2019-12-17 a la(s) 1

Water from the Cauca dammed river, flows through a system of transparent plastic and copper tubes, through a surgical secretion aspirator where the water pump is submerged, which again drives the liquid upwards creating a continuous cycle.
This work, with the elements it brings together, not only moves and puts in circulation the water from dammed rivers, such us of the Cauca River, which has been dammed for the generation of electricity, but also sets in motion reflections on the continuous exchange and connection between different systems and forms of life.
The work-mechanism is an elemental model of a living structure, it could be a circulatory system, a hydrographic basin or medical machinery, that evidences intersections and hybridizations, where the human history is no longer the privileged one, the tubes here, not only those that are inside the human body but of all the other subjects (people), that inhabit the world beyond the human. The tube is the umbilical cord, the snake, the yagé liana, the flutes, the sniffer bones.

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