We have shaped our life systems based on the machine model, rather than recognizing ourselves as organisms. This mechanistic perspective has contributed to the emergence of the Anthropocene, an era defined by the human capacity to alter life cycles at geological scales, generating an ecological imbalance and fracturing our relationship with nature. In the face of this disconnect and the current climate crisis, the exhibition De lo mecánico a lo orgánico [From the Mechanical to the Organic] takes on the task of imagining worlds outside the Anthropocene, exploring the mechanical models that led us to this crisis and contrasting them with organic models that promote coexistence between species and propose possible solutions to the problem.

Inspired by the perspectives of philosophers such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and anthropologist Anna Tsing, this exhibition invites us to reimagine our relationships with terrestrial organisms and to rethink our sociability with life beyond the human. Through the work of eleven artists and collectives, the exhibition questions the discourses of domination, separation and progress that Modernity used to create an otherness of non-human species.

Tracing the landscape from the Latin American and Puerto Rican context, the works ground us in the soil we inhabit and connect us to the organisms that compose it. Through a plurality of artistic media, they subvert the systems of control over life and land, the mechanization of nature, and the effects of industries on ecosystems. The artists invite us to recognize ourselves as a species integrated to the natural environment, enunciating in their works the importance of safeguarding spaces of coexistence, extending sociability to the multiplicity of life forms and revaluing materiality and sustainability. In this way, they reformulate our terrestrial imaginary and use art as a bridge, inspiring us to abandon the world of mechanical functions in which we live to inhabit futures based on the organic relationships we need to build.