Carlota Bulgari

My practice situates itself within a cyborg-feminist framework and moves away from the dominant anthropocentric perspective. Supported by interests in postmodern philosophy and feminist sci-fi narratives, my practice emphasises the importance of including the human and the nonhuman, both organic and technological beings, within the processes of co-creation and co-destruction.

These ideas concerned with perpetual transformation are explored in the work depicted above, Possibility in the Void (2023). The latter is a kinetic installation composed of four skeletal clay sculptures each containing an uncoloured latex balloon. The sculptures are connected to an Arduino microcontroller that allows them to be inflated and deflated; the filling of the cavity refers to the possibility of newness within the void and to the pregnant body as a type of embodiment that is transient and temporal. The expansive and contractive movement and the fresh clay slowly drying convey a sense of gradual disintegration and decay, raising questions around the precarious and temporal nature of bodies. This sense of ephemerality is distinctive of my practice and is present in my latest works, alongside the consideration of erosion and sedimentation as powerful forces of change.