The exhibition Stardust, by Marina Núñez, presented by the gallery RocioSantaCruz, explores the human condition within a sideral and technological planet.

The artist constructs a constellation in which art, science and digital culture enter into dialogue. Through a series of images of great formal complexity and strong metaphorical charge, she composes an ecosystem shaped by metamorphoses between the human, nature and the cosmos.

Her work occupies a hybrid territory where references to science fiction, scientific iconography and the visual languages of technological culture converge.

This approach is reflected in a meticulous creative process that integrates digital tools, image manipulation and artificial intelligence as a medium. The result is a body of images that expand the boundaries of digital art and allow for new ways of representing the planet and its evolution.

Working across video, brass bas-reliefs and glass sculptures, Marina Núñez articulates a constantly transforming universe that calls for new forms of human life in relation to the environment and the community. In the background, planetary horizons emerge with embryonic worlds, giant flowers connecting sky and earth, faces whose eyes function as biospheres, and hands that grow like plants.

All of this serves to frame identity as an unstable process in continuous metamorphosis, blurring the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, the human and the artificial.

Stardust refers to the scientific and poetic idea that the matter composing our bodies originates from the stars. The artist draws on this notion to propose a vision of the human being as part of a broader universal system, where the boundaries between nature, technology and cosmos dissolve, shaping a global space based on relations of interdependence.

Fragmented or transformed figures challenge traditional notions of normality and highlight the diversity of possible forms of existence.

Taken as a whole, the exhibition creates a contemplative journey in which the microscopic and the cosmic intertwine in scenarios that are at once unsettling and fascinating. Ultimately, it invites reflection on the human condition in constant evolution and on the capacity of art to connect science, imagination and critical thought.

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