Who are we?
Karla Kracht / Germany – Spain
Karla is a visual artist and creates retro-futuristic techno sculptures. The limits between her drawing stroke and their digital reflection blur completely. She creates bizarre universes full of strange creatures, miniature cities inhabited by mythologic cyborg goddesses that fit into a suitcase so they can travel around the world.
aruma – Sandra De Berduccy / Bolivia – Chile
Aruma employs techniques from her Andean weaving teachers to store energy in a spinning wheel. She creates fabrics that depend on the night, emit light and are visited by nocturnal butterflies from the native woods, where those woven fabrics were created with soft and portable technologies.
Frankensistas
– What do witches do when there are no herbs left?
– They sow mythical seeds in their electric garden.
Two artists from practically antipode places of the contemporary world – to not succumb in dystopia before fighting – joined to create. “We need to leave the forest because it has been invaded”
“Enough of escaping the monsters. It’s time to walk with the goddesses”.
Both know that the reflection of the stars on water, cut into the stone, was the first way of capturing photons. And they also learned that you have to look at the empty spaces between the stars to discover mythical animals, like llamas, toads, fireflies and small bats that accompany them through the dark nights.
We know our tools and are more sure about our retro-digital practices, which we cultivated over the years. Drawing, weaving, modelling, assembling, creating our electronic artefacts, connecting them with others, automating them, and converting them into interfaces. They can tell you stories with shadows at the campfire, walk with you whilst twirling conductive thread on the spinning wheel, to then weave organic interfaces, but above all, they can whisper in your ear an unedited experience that handles your anguish when thinking about the future.