This installation is the most recent elaboration of the Molten Media series (2013–2018; 2024), my long-term examination of electronic waste. The work presents a collection of material remnants of the recent and distant past. In showcasing mineral, organic, and electronic materials together, the project explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between “natural” and “artificial”. Incorporating a display case from the University of Porto, Molten Media: Supernatural subverts traditional modes of stratifying artifacts of natural history that exclude traces of human impacts on ecology.
Presented in the exhibition Unfolding Technical Objects at the Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.
Photo: Rui Marques
