Paula Proaño Mesias’ work reflects on various technological structures, as well as their cultural and
political dimensions, exploring the tensions between the human and the non-human. Through this, she
questions how this dichotomy affects ways of cohabiting and the structuring of the world-system. Using
diverse media such as performance, sculpture, video, and installation, she evaluates Western ways of
conceiving the natural world to challenge human-centered notions and norms, creating pieces that
establish relationships between bodies from a posthumanist perspective, as an alternative form of
(self)representation against dominant schemes. In her projects, she creates prosthetic hybrids that
transcend the purely human form by expanding the body with sculptural objects, which articulate the
multiplicity and heterogeneity of a process of subjectivation beyond the human. By appealing to a
multispecies alliance through the process of “becoming animal,” she seeks to create forms or experiences
that escape hegemonic humanism.
She recently received the Visual Arts Creation Award from IFCI/IFAIC (Ecuador). In 2024, she was selected
for Gasworks residency in London (Fundación Eacheve), URRA Cerrito (Argentina) residency in 2023, and
she received Creation Grant from the National Arts Fund (Argentina) in 2022.
Recent exhibitions and collaborations include: Disección, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
2025; Undercurrents: Waves Walking on the Water, Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale, 2025; La llama que
enciende el humedal, Museo Interactivo de Ciencia, Quito, 2025; La ligera sorpresa de la acción, Centro
Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, 2025; in short, we are cyborgs, Omved Gardens, London, 2024;
Tiempo de siembra, Raum, Berlin, 2024; Latinoargentina, Proa21, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 2024;
Una conjuración de mundos, Museo Sívori, Buenos Aires, 2023; Imaginar futuros al cobijo de un paisaje,
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