For the Chilean artist Patricia Domínguez plants are a source of knowledge. They are powerful organic technologies that can gift us vision, reset our minds, cleanse, challenge and accompany us. Most importantly, plants help us understand the energy that connects all living beings. This energy can take the form of an electrical field, as in the installation by Atractor Studio + Semantica, or be explored through the behaviour of particles in quantum physics. Patricia investigated this phenomenon during her residencies in scientific institutions at CERN in Switzerland and astronomy facilities in Chile. At the same time, she learned from Amador Aniceto, a Peruvian healer, to connect with the spiritual wisdom surrounding us through the healing power of plants. While scientific and spiritual approaches differ, both seek to explore the invisible and intangible, grounded in speculation, imagination, and predictions about the origin and future of our planet. 

In her work, Patricia studies plants’ abilities to bridge between scientific and spiritual knowledge systems. Her exploration begins with the guidance of two cyborg-like birds, Rambo I&II (2024), leading us to two video works shown together for the first time. In Matrix Vegetal (2022) a woman, accompanied by a parrot, uses plants to expand her perception of the natural and spiritual worlds. She looks for a “vegetal portal,” where & plants’ consciousness' — the idea that plants can learn, memorise and respond to their environment — offers a gateway to understanding the connection of all living things.

In Tres Lunas Más Abajo (2024) the same protagonist is entering this time with Rambo a “machine portal”. We follow them through the quantum worlds of CERN, tracing the ancestral rock carvings in the Atacama Desert in Chile and the world’s most precise observatories located in the same desert. The protagonist embraces these different technologies to acquire their capabilities. She longs for their vision and understanding to broaden her senses and deepen her connection to the universe and all beings within. The video concludes with the world's largest particle accelerator at CERN telling her to go and dream, which ends up being the space where she can finally connect with her entangled particles. 

At the end of your exhibition visit, Patricia invites visitors to join in creating a shrine with offerings of local medicinal plants, flowers, and cherished objects.