Eugenio Ampudia
No one finds root in an unknown planet
We are pleased to present No One Finds Roots on an Unknown Planet, a solo exhibition by Eugenio Ampudia. The exhibition showcases the artist’s most recent work, which explores the relationships between the human, the natural, and the technological from a contemporary ecological perspective.
Any narrative about the contemporary subject is inseparable from the environment it inhabits.
In No one finds roots on an unknown planet, Eugenio Ampudia proposes a journey through different geographies of consciousness. The visitor moves through material landscapes where thought takes on organic forms: branches that draw neural networks and natural fragments that integrate into human bodies. Each work becomes a vantage point onto new ecologies of knowledge, where the vegetal, the mineral, the animal, and the technological participate in a shared flow of intelligence.
A large part of the works in the exhibition have been generated as a grammar of drift: minimal remnants of the environment are relocated into new contexts where they become triggers for thought and memory.These works are thus the result of a strategy of knowledge built by observing and embracing the fragility of the living.
Within the exhibition, images that evoke the power of nature coexist with other poetic frictions that, taken together, suggest that identity is no longer only biographical or psychological, but also ecological: the subject is defined by an environment that passes through it.
No one finds roots on an unknown planet is also a political statement about the impossibility of feeling at home when the territory is strange, hostile, or has been transformed to the point of becoming unrecognizable. It points to a crisis of belonging. We live in a state of estrangement on a planetary scale.
Nothing better explains the contemporary zeitgeist than the concept of uprootedness. We live in a system we no longer recognize: the frameworks that once oriented us have ceased to function.
