The world in which we live is becoming more and more -mechanically- augmented by layers of improvement that end up exceeding our ability to follow and adapt to unprecedented technological evolutions, leading to a kind of cerebral techno-occultism where the previous iterative layers allow to activate even more revolutionary levers each time, with a clear finality that those who see and think already perceive instinctively: technology will end up merging with organic matter. The inert meets the living with a brutality forced by a non-linear adaptive necessity that pushes us to direct all the cerebral computing power of our era towards these stakes that make the brightest brains heat up.

Technology will never have been anything other than the human capacity to:

• Structure systems

• Orient them towards the rearrangement of matter in the material and intellectual world

Systems are already an integral part of our deep conception of life, and we call it society. I am now going to develop the subtle link between our capacity to rearrange matter through systems and their indissociable connection to the life that surrounds us, and in what way brutalism and its underlying -inert- structures connect with the living in its exploratory and artistic aspect.

Here, brutalism refers in fact to an honest and courageous exploration of form, function and materials without embellishments or ornamentations that would divert the gaze from what reality can impose on what one really creates. When we speak of bio-brutalism (Fernando Galdon, 2023), we actually want to give nature a kind of secondary role not guided by its own or chosen will, but unconscious and complementary. Nature does not propagate by need of creation or intellectual interest, but by simple necessity. And thus, biology ends up becoming part despite itself of a setting where humans force the juxtaposition and alignment of matter.

And it is in this radical juxtaposition and honest complementarity that we see a kind of return to the source of what things really are. The boundary becomes blurred, and it may be the origins that speaks from infinity: water on Earth came to us directly from space, and life itself developed from molecular arrangements, polymerizations and complex fusions over hundreds of millions of years.

Human vision is not omniscient. It is simply this deep instinct that everything is one and unity makes everything, and which reminds us that the barrier between inert matter and complex life, although extremely tedious and long, is not unbridgeable. The bio-engineering that we have been practicing for a long time (genetic selection, more or less complex modified bacteria…) is the proof that biology can be modeled in the same way we shape stone. It is just that the tools and systems to do this are fragile, and once again, have to be manipulated on much longer time scales, and with possibilities of chance as to the results.

I am going to take a simple example, but yet completely under-estimated: insofar as you grasp your phone every day, you will perfectly agree that your neuronal muscular and cerebral circuits readjust according to your habits and your use of your device: in what way is this not already an alteration at a biological level and by the physical aspect (the object, here the phone) and at the same time psychological and cerebral (your use of the phone: content watched, tasks performed…). We clearly see that any extension, although not directly connected to the primary biological origins, has profound implications on your complex molecular arrangement. Recent meta-analyses confirm that this daily use alters brain volume (especially subcortical) and neuronal activations, proof that the inert (the device) already imposes itself on the cerebral living.

And in a sense, this fusion will first take place through external additions, because implants and other technologies are currently too intrusive and risky.

It remains that the stake here is existential, and it sends us back to our desire for eternity through survival: we are no longer talking here about classic survival, but about that implied by technologies that now offer us the potential future possibility of directly improving ourselves, whether through genes, physical or intellectual capacities, the almost total delegation of an environment that has been forged in violence for thousands of years, and which ends up blooming in a spectacle of enormous rapid progress. It is in this tension between inert and living that my practice is born, where the barriers blur and the stakes converge.

Between forced brutality and unconscious complementarity: a Bio-Brutalist synthesis where tech and organic conspire to engrave the memory of origins. My work engraves this memory in matter: forms where code and flesh conspire, reminding that from cosmic chaos is born augmented eternity.

Artists have explored brutalism and digital creation, others tend towards this more organic and natural side, I want to be the synthesis of both: so that this world, if it continues as it is, and which will never again know how to do without the technology that has made us as much as we created it, forever remembers where it comes from and why it must continue to live, and that its heart, its functioning, be the proof that from the divine emerges the divine.