Exotic Exodus

Displacement. Adaptation. Survival.

I approach insects as an invisible connective tissue between worlds. Their forced displacements — under the pressure of global trade and climate mutations — reveal the silent dismantling of our ecosystems.

EXOTIC EXODUS documents forced species migrations through material translation. Insects are displaced by climate collapse, trade routes, and industrial expansion. This work mobilizes fibers from animal production — silk, wool — and luxury textile waste, combined with natural dyes developed during residencies in Sumba and Mexico. A direct resonance with the ancient Silk Roads, where insects and commodities already traced geographies of exploitation.

Glass cocoons encapsulate metallic and textile threads, vestiges of an industrial molt. Leather is engraved with micro-incisions reproducing the wing patterns of disappeared species — a skin as prosthetic memory. Cut metal exoskeletons follow the contours of real insects before being reassembled into hybrid creatures that never existed: chimeras born from multiple species.
Rather than preserving nature, the work archives its survival through artifice. Materials are stripped of their ornamental function to become evidence of displacement.

EXOTIC EXODUS does not restore. It witnesses uprooting.