Como brota la muerte, brota la vida explores the life and death drives that shape human activities. The awareness of death leads the individual to a search for happiness that manifests itself in an individualistic accumulation of consumer goods and experiences. Our fascination with “novelty” and artificial stimuli intoxicates us to the point of turning a blind eye to the indelible damage they cause to the ecosystem and the forms of exploitation that result from it. Our primary needs have been transformed into desires for specific objects that never completely satisfy us. We believe they improve our standard of living. But is this improvement real? When playing the lottery, scrolling on a dating app or setting sail on a makeshift boat are proof that hope dies last.

Inspired by daily life on the island of Ayiti (now the Dominican Republic), the works engage with a global phenomenon that historian Fressoz calls the “thanatocene.” This concept describes the current era, marked by an intensified destructive trend. In recent conflicts, the goal is no longer just to neutralize the adversary, but to cause unprecedented human losses and destroy its environment (ecocide). In the island context, removed from the main warlike events of this century, this interweaving of life and death drives manifests itself in less obvious forms that the exhibition highlights.