Intertwined Inconsistencies: Incomplete Rhizomes
Intertwined Inconsistencies: Incomplete Rhizomes is an experimental art project connected to the study of the rhizome, seeking ways to move beyond the purely metaphorical.
Phase I
In the first phase of this project, we created this organic mass, formed by almost anthropomorphic bodies intertwined with one another, evoking a rhizome formed by roots or tangled beings.
We simultaneously place ourselves within a fiction in which a macropolitical multitude of bodies merges, each with its own personal idiosyncrasy. What unites us is not biology, but our experience and the act of transgressing gender assignments and imposed norms.
The rhizome is part of who we are, part of a collective identity. Our artistic practice is a way of experimenting with that rhizome as long as we can hold it(us). It’s part of an ongoing process of constant transformation, a rhizome always in development.
Soft Rhizome (2024), belonging to Intertwined Inconsistencies: Incomplete Rhizomes (2024-in progress)
Tissue and nylon
Phase II
For this reason, our artistic practice is always in progress, always changing. For this reason, our artistic practice is always in progress, always changing. The second phase is based on the study of care and the germination of the rhizome as a method for creating networks among people who, in some way, navigate dissident masculinities (understood it as a social rhizome). This germination process, with all its setbacks during the growth and development of the ginger plant, is documented through illustrations and writings that evoke a kind of herbarium.
As the rhizome grows, it is harvested and shared with others connected, in some way, to dissident masculinities. Sharing the food we have cultivated means sharing the process itself with a social movement—forming a rhizome in its own right. Moreover, this project entails acts of care: germinating, planting, and nurturing the rhizome becomes part of the daily routine of those who tend to it, intertwining itself with their everyday lives. Allowing others to eat the rhizome is allowing them to consume our process.
In this way, the research process becomes not only formal or theoretical but also something physical, literally going through our bodies, transforming the rhizome not only “a body,” but “our body.
Germinating the rhizome (2025-en proceso) belonging to Intertwined Inconsistencies: Incomplete Rhizomes (2024-in progress)
Black and white digital drawing and text