California City
— 2026, instalation
I am currently developing an artistic project focused on California City, a planned city conceived in the late 1950s in the Mojave Desert, built upon land previously inhabited by Native American communities and later exploited for extensive livestock farming, including the ranch owned by Basque immigrant Gregorio Mendiburu. This territory of extreme conditions was transformed through an urban grid designed primarily for real estate speculation rather than for sustaining life.
The project investigates the overlap of ambition, extractivism, and erasure, engaging with the material traces of an impossible city. The work takes shape through a constellation of pieces in progress — video installations, photographic works, and sculptural elements — addressing the landscape as archive, fiction, and a site of critical projection.
