Proto-Ideas Laboratory

Projects before they become inevitable.

These are not vague promises: each proto-idea contains a question, a spatial form, a technical development path and a concrete opening for collaboration.

JRC · 2027

Artist residency proposal · JRC, European Commission · Decoding Depression · Ispra, 2027

E la nave va

A ship drawn in section. What weighs on a life is stowed below the waterline; what sustains it floats above. The waterline rises and falls with anonymous contributions and with the currents that move the whole fleet at once: economic crises, pandemics, wars, climate.

On the hull sits a Plimsoll line, the safe-load mark that British law made compulsory in 1876. Political decisions are not the sea: they are the rule that sets how much load is safe. The interactive fleet shows six ships (school, work, family, leisure, relationships, digital access), live statistics by age, situation and disability, and two scenarios for 2040. All data in the prototype are invented.

Interactive fleet · original sketch · application dossier

Full project → The fleet ↗ First sketch ↗ Application PDF (English) ↗ Application PDF (Spanish) ↗

Artist residency proposal · Medialab Matadero · Situated Research · Madrid, 2026

In the Shade. The Art of Making Room

I want to investigate what makes a place welcome us. I begin with an everyday gesture: looking for shade. Across six sites in the ecosystem around Matadero Madrid, I will walk, listen, photograph and compose with social organisations, workers, students, neighbours and people who pass through the area.

The shadow is both a material reality and an image of care: a place that lets another body stop, rest and feel part of the world, without having to buy, produce or justify its presence.

Proposal · Script 00 — atlas of six shadows · documentary piece · video-art piece

PROPOSAL IN PROGRESS · AWAITING AUTHORISATION

Immersive installation · open research

Three Lands for a Single Present

Three projected territories coexist and bleed into one another across a central sphere, the walls, floor and ceiling. The experience asks the audience not to contemplate possible futures from the outside, but to move through them.

Seeking: technical residency · co-producing institution · multichannel design

WORK IN PROGRESS

Generative art · photonics · expanded portraiture

The Image That Never Existed

A face emerges as a magnetic field: neon lines, planes of light and constellations construct and dissolve it in real time. Identity is not a fixed form but an interference.

Seeking: media lab · scientific collaboration · projection space

WORK IN PROGRESS

Moving image · body · transformation

The Metamorphosis of Sated Identity

An androgynous figure advances towards the camera while body, face, clothing and landscape follow different rhythms of mutation. An inquiry into the self as reprogrammable matter.

Seeking: creative incubator · animation · digital exhibition

WORK IN PROGRESS

Image studies

Proto-Ideas in Development

A current study whose future form remains open to movement, recombination and technical development.

Composite study with repeated cosmic faces and a geometric Sahara pattern by Enrique Alcides — **Cosmic / Sahara study** Composite image bringing together a cosmic face and a pattern connected to the artist’s Sahara memories.

Collaborations

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