XYZ

XYZ envisions bio-materials as a means to survive our world in flames. Biopolymers are bio-based synthetic materials–produced from renewable raw materials, degradable and, potentially, biocompatible. Our bodies understand these materials as our own. We become one with another, in constant flux and boundless. Entangled to such an extent that limits become intangible.

The Textile Industry is the 2nd most pollutive (just after the Oil Industry). Every year half a million tons of microfiber (=3 MILLION oil barrels) are thrown into the sea, utilizivng 93 MILLION meters cubic of water, enough volume to satisfy the need of 5 MILLION people. Persisting to utilize crude oil as the base raw materialof production, perpetuates a detrimental relation to our environment, and fails to take into account nonhuman living organisms present in the soil and water from which this material is extracted.

XYZ drifts towards different forms of coexisting, living and transforming with others, standing against compulsory heterosexuality by recognizing the diversity of nature— looking at other living organisms, not solely as a means to continue reproducing our existing forms of living and comfort, but rather, as a new and alternative source of knowledge from which to learn and help this burning world. 

Garments are cassava-based biopolymers combined with wool fiber, dyed and sewn by hand.

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Credits

Creative direction: LUCÍA TIEFF
Photography: FRANCISCA ETCHEGARAY
Retouching: ARAÍ MOLERI
Garments: LUCÍA TIEFF
Model: MADISON WEINHOFFER
MUA and hair: PIRU FRESIA
Studio: UNIVERSAL
Special thanks: CASIOPEA LAB, RINA BURGOS MAZZA, SOFÍA CÓRDOBA, LAURA LÓPEZ PANIAGUA

Montevideo | Berlin, 2022.

Flesh to Flesh/De bife corazón

Flesh to flesh/De bife corazón arises from sympoietic processes of making with others, not of others.

A symbiotic mixture of bacteria, yeast, and natural polymers, become a biodegradable and biocompatible matter—a simile meat material that questions current means of production. Flesh to Flesh/De bife corazón seeks to understant every unit belonging to a shared system of strings in constant relation to each other, to find different ways of coexisting and becoming with other organisms, whether human or not, dead or alive. It is a call to the multispecies, to adrift from the exploitation of non renewable resources and begin working with the original renewable life, making kin with the unknown and abrace the local.

Flesh to flesh/De bife corazón nace a partir de procesos simpoiéticos de hacer con otrxs, no de otrxs.

Una mezcla simbiótica de bacterias, levaduras, y polímeros naturales, se convierten en materia biodegradable y biocompatible, dando vida a un símil carne, cuestionando las formas de producción actuales. Es un llamado a la multiespecie, alejarnos de la explotación de recursos no renovables para trabajar con la vida renovable original, hacer kin con lo desconocido y abrazar lo local. Tener en cuenta cada unidad que está siendo parte de un sistema de hilos en constante relación, para encontrar distintas formas de coexistir y transmutar con otros organismos, humanxs o no, vivos o muertos.

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Photos: Sofía Córdoba

Mixed media installation: Cassava starch, Agar Agar and Kombucha SCOBY based biopolymer, natural merino wool, stainless steel.

Dimensions: 250x70x100cm.

Apertura ß, Casiopea Lab. Montevideo, Uruguay. May 2022.