Claudio Aldaz
Technobarbaric Naturalogical Mystical Altar, developed as part of the P:O:W: (Place of Worship) project, unfolds as a reflection on the entanglement of technology, matter and spirituality in an age defined by obsolescence. Bringing together sculpture, sound and audiovisual elements, these site-specific installations take the form of altars and totems assembled from discarded technological materials, their surfaces coated in a golden patina that recalls the visual language of Baroque devotion. Within these hybrid structures, the mechanical and the organic converge, creating spaces that oscillate between ritual and speculation. Rather than engaging with waste through a strictly recycling logic, the work proposes a poetic and critical reconfiguration of the discarded, opening up new ways of thinking about value, transformation and material afterlives.
Claudio Aldaz’s work is articulated around an investigation into the relationship between human beings and the technological environment they themselves have created, exploring the tensions, frictions, and forms of coexistence that emerge from this connection. His practice unfolds across two main lines: a sculptural approach and a research-based exploration of new supports and formats such as installation, video, performative action, and sound art, developed through platforms like Consume ESTO and Corporación Bacilö. From this position, his work situates itself within a historical moment that could be understood as a kind of adolescence of humanity—what J. L. Sampedro described as the “age of techno-barbarism.” His work has been presented in both solo and group exhibitions, as well as art fairs, in cities such as Granada, Murcia, Madrid, Sarajevo, Berlin, and Chicago.
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