Witness of change 04
Witness of change 04

Witness of change 04

Roseline de Thélin
€330,00
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Speculative fabulations on the future of the Opuntia Cactus & the Cochineal Insect.

An Eco-Poiesis project by artist Roseline de Thélin

Witness of change series: 25 scenes of the traditional payesa of Ibiza witnessing future imaginary landscapes of hybrid cactuses.

For La Luna Gallery the artist has reserved the edition number 2 of this series, certified & signed.

Size: 25 x 25 cm

Medium: Giclée print on organic paper (unframed). Techniques weave analogue & digital with Artificial Intelligence

Year: 2024

// Sales contribute to the ecological action of the collective Sos Cochichumbas to raise awareness on the disappearance of the Prickly Pear cactus in Ibiza and mainland Spain.

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No Refunds available, credit only , spent within 6 month of date of purchase.

For worldwide art shipping send us a request via email
connect@laluna.gallery
Roseline de Thélin 

Roseline de Thélin 

Originally trained in painting and sculpture, Roseline started working with light as a medium in 1996, creating light sculptures in collaboartion with architects and designers. In 2003, she produced her first optic fibre light sculpture introducing digital techniques into her work...

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MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE

Speculative fabulations on the future of the Opuntia Cactus & the Cochineal Insect.

“Memories of the future” is an eco-poiesis project part of the “SoS Cochichumbas” action, a collective of women artists based on the island of Ibiza who decided to raise awareness through the arts about the disappearance of the Opuntiae cactus / Nopal, Prickly Pears, or Chumbera/ in the Balearic Islands and mainland Spain, due to a plague of Cochineal. “Memories of the Future” explores the web of ecological, cultural and historical interconnectedness shaping our world through the lens of the symbiotic relationship between the Opuntiae Cactus and the Cochineal insect. 

“Speculative fabulations” (Harraway 2016) is a type of imaginative storytelling that enables us to unfold new worlds arousing an apetite for what is possible. Rooted in story telling practices “Speculative fabulations” defamiliare queers perception, and disrupt ways of knowing in front of global and local ecological crisis. Althought they are fabulations that does not mean they are incompatible with science facts.

For this project I collaborated with Artificial Intelligence Image Generators to produce hybrid images from written prompts. The created artworks imagine a world in which the Opuntiae Cactus and the Cochineal insect are central to our past-future evolution. The generated images or “speculative fabulations” scenes are produced from a hybrid blend of artificial intelligence, digital manipulation, and hands-on analogue craftsmanship. As an Art Based Research and by engaging with AI, the project aims to experiment with processes of hybridization, crossing between heterogeneous medium/ techniques/ modalities, and shifting our perspectives while expanding creative and imaginative possibilities.

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