TIEMPOANIMAL (2022-2025)

Tiempoanimal departs from a simple premise: time is not neutral. It is shaped by the body, by physics, and by societal structures. 

The works explore time as a subjective experience that lives in flesh. Partituras para parpadeo invites repeated blinking, a gesture that, according to neuroscientific research, releases dopamine and subtly alters the perception of duration. Placed alongside Volcanes más tiempo que mar / Mar más tiempo que centro — paintings and poems that sit inside geological time scales — the body's internal rhythms are brought into the same plane as volcanoes and oceans where time passes at a slightly different rate. Neither is more real than the other.

Space, too, is understood as living territory. In Mis huesos tienen ojos, a hologram of a bone contains a poem that can only be read by moving around it — activating the deep evolutionary link between the neural systems that orient the body in space and those that produce language. Meaning, here, requires movement.

The materials carry their own histories: indigo, cochineal, volcanic ash, bone, Pacific sand. These are not neutral pigments but substances marked by geological evolution, and, more recently, extraction and resistance. Integrated into a somatic practice, they ask the body to recognize itself as part of a shared history that expands beyond the human scale.

Documentation from the 2025 exhibition at Galería Extra, Guatemala City. Photos by Margo Porres.