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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Publications Graphic  Design Audiovisual

Assemblage(s): a Holobiont Spell(2024)


The work explores the entangled relationships between humans, the gut, bacteria, and the ecosystems we inhabit through biomaterials, a fractal language, a map, and sound. The spell is one of transformation, beginning and ending at the Crossroads: The gut, as a place of connection between the body and the outside world, which transforms into the Shelter—the house that builds itself. The Shelter is the host that holds the stranger and the parasite, which is simultaneously a home for others. This fusion transitions into the Debris, a place of death and rebirth—what is left in the ground will later become part of the gut again. It is through this intertwined & circular spell that all these points connect in space.

Sound Design by  Ander Vallejo Larre. 
Riso Print at Kudla Werkstat CZ.

Part of the exibihition: Messages at the Crossroads, part of the AiR Residency at Petrohradská Prague, with Sadrie Alves, and Tereza Melková.
Curated by Edita Strajtova. 

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