Patricia Domínguez Chilean, b. 1984

Domínguez’s first feature-length film, Tres Lunas más Abajo [Three Moons Below], presents a crossover of spiritual and quantum realms. The particle accelerators of CERN and radiotelescopes in the Atacama collide with ancient petroglyphs in the surrounding desert to act as portals for the video’s protagonists: a woman and her robotic bird companion. Together, they enter theoretical space, consulting with mystical beings and machines on their multidimensional journey.

The protagonist embraces the machines to acquire their technologies. She longs for the vision that the machines can offer, allowing her to expand her own sensorial capabilities and connect with the animals, celestial bodies and unknown forces that inhabit our world in new ways. The video explores ritual, ancestral knowledge and the frontiers of science to invite different perspectives on our universe beyond what is tangible and visible.

‘The new video is the second part of a personal inquiry, which I started in 2021, to broaden my understanding of the invisible. My previous video installation or ‘door’ Matrix Vegetal is the ‘vegetal door’ of the shamanic universe of plant intelligence, and this new work is the mirror ‘video door,’ which explores mysticism and ritual while navigating fundamental science and cutting-edge technologies. The film is a quest of decoding and recoding how we understand reality and how we can shift perspectives… The video ends with CERN’s Large Hadron Collider telling her to go and dream, which ends up being the space where she can finally connect with her entangled particles. I’m trying to embed the video with the experiences that most expanded my thinking during my own ‘pilgrimage’ to these places and concepts.’

– Patricia Domínguez, Burlington Contemporary, September 2024