Adaptation Protocols is an installation composed of three black and white photographic images connected through real digital cables to a tangled nest-like structure placed on the floor.
The images suggest hybrid states between biology and technology: roots transformed into electronic extensions, a USB device emerging from a cracked eggshell, and an organic form sutured by cables.
At the center of the cable structure, a dim pulsating LED light functions as a minimal electronic heartbeat.
The installation reflects on adaptation, technological dependency, fragility and the unstable relationship between organic existence and artificial systems.
Biography
Nadal Antelmo (Cárdenas, Cuba, 1968) is a Cuban-American visual creator working between photography, installation and conceptual image-making.
Since the 1990s, his work has explored themes related to identity, memory, social tension, technological culture and symbolic transformation through staged photography, digital intervention and mixed media processes.
His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, biennials and contemporary art projects in Cuba, the United States and Europe.