Luis Enrique Zela-Koort

N.A.S.A.L. presents All the possible pulses by Luis Enrique Zela-Koort (Perou, 1994).

In this new body of work, Zela explores at once a scientific and artistic approach to the body as a mighty organism and container, working for and against; heading into the unique worlds that exist within us, while proposing alternative readings into these mechanisms and narratives that we all carry within.

As much as the exhibition focuses on reproduction, not in the sense of reproducing ourselves and creating children, but rather reproduction in the sense of multiplicity and creating schools, communities, and families, for better or for worse, a sense of nature’s amazing ability to perpetually create and recreate itself. Quite quickly we are led to wonder, how we are producers of a currency, a product of our environments, mechanisms that are so fragmented and ever existing in the fabric of the capitalist system. Within the exhibition context, binary modes are forced to destabilize and make room for a new body, new living beings, and new modes of existing. Speculating sensual and porous relations between beings, landscapes, undoing the barriers between the inside and the outside.

This queer meta-narrative the exhibition proposes results somewhat ritualistic, presenting itself as a self-sacrificing shrine. In modernity, for one to survive must the other disintegrate. Similarly, the most infinite confrontation and sacrifice exists within us, the ultimate possibility and compassion exist within us, therefore ¿How do we draw from this, without repeating the same productivity modalities that we are somehow confined to replicate? Here, Zela presents unity and community, unison, pleasure and desire, and a nod to the cogs that make it all happen.

— Silvana Lagos