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I make the babies it gave me
2024-2025
tin, aluminum, third hand


I make the babies it gave me is a sculpture series made of tin. The twelve pieces originate from the actual ultrasonic pictures of the artist, acquired in one of the sessions from a gynecologist visit. The bodily representation was translated three times through AI generative models, 3D sculpting, and further brought back to the physical world by the hands of the artist.

Extracting the pain inscribed in the medical data, the artist was in search of the autonomy which was compartmentalized and reduced amid the medical apparatus.


The betweenness of the senses, the touches to the localizing in the body, and the vitality that communes from one being to another are devoid as a patient is confronted with the technological innovation, which is used for analyzing, dissecting and diagnosing the body. Thus, the artist attempts to re-animate them, persisting on the creation by the machine and concurrently the human, in efforts to reclaim the meaningfulness that deposits in the continual exchange of the subject and the world.