Animals and machines are recurring motifs in both Simon Dybbroe Møller and Nina Beier’s work. Each of their respective practices taps into the mutable tropes found in mass-produced goods traveling between different geo-political realities. 

In PROTEIN, the exhibition they are currently developing for our current exhibition space: La Carpinteria, the world of the commodity is united with that of animals/machines. Departing from the widespread assumption that the human being is better than the animal and other than the machine, the artists have been investigating Ibiza’s insects and cultural life to produce a new collaborative installation featuring a large colony of solar-powered mechanical bugs. 

During this talk, the artists discussed the muddled reality of the island’s varied, contrasting and coexisting cultural and natural features, and shared with the audience some aspects of their individual artistic approaches, as well as the collaborative nature of the project as the result of their residency on Ibiza between the months of April and July 2023.