Artist, Graphic Designer and Researcher
(ES, CL~1997)
Barcelona based.  

Andrea Galano Toro is a Chilean artist and graphic designer based in Barcelona. Her transdisciplinary practice explores storytelling as a gesture to activate and enchant transformational experiences through installations, audiovisual performances, workshops, and publications. Her work engages ecological narratives focused on processes of decay and multispecies relationships, approached through a critical lens that questions extractivist logics.

Her practice unfolds through scale, language, and experimental storytelling — approaching the micro to +think the macro — and reappropriating tools designed 
to measure or classify the world, such as microscopes, macro lenses, and bestiaries, as instruments of speculation, intuition, and connection with the more-than-human. Andrea works with electronics in connection to natural materials through installations that transform and decompose over time, exploring technology itself in relation to decay and its own mortality. Language is 
also central: from collective glossaries to speculative symbols and cartographies as ways of imagining other worlds and relations.

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Living Riddles(2023)


Video installation that conceives Lichens as a mythical entity The work endeavors to meld the realms of science fact,  with science fiction, stretching the boundaries of speculative storytelling, in order to rekindle the enchantment surrounding lichens.  Lichens assume a rebellious countenance, embodying resilience and embracing the intricacies of polyamory, unreservedly embracing its openly hybrid nature.This myth unfurls through three phases: Interstellar Ancestor, Symbiotic Dreams, and Liminal Beings.

Concept, visuals, myth: Andrea Galano Toro
Recording, Composition, Sound Design & Mix: Anderson Kaltner
Voice: Tomaz Bevilaqua Ferreira

Video Recordings during Valley Of The Possible Terra Preta (2022) Residency.

Thanks to the support and funding of Museo del Hongo

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