Margot Samel is pleased to announce a solo presentation by Carolina Fusilier (b. 1985, Buenos Aires) at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Inmortalistas, by the Argentina-born, Mexico-based artist, investigates the materiality of technology and its entanglement with vital cycles. The installation consists of paintings built from discarded industrial packaging and assembled into a network of pipes that link the visible and hidden spaces behind the white walls that frame the work. Traces of circulation, energy, gas, liquids, and the invisible technologies that quietly shape daily life, become newly legible. As in her previous projects, Fusilier reveals the invisible circuits of architecture, turning them accessible as an entry point for what is usually concealed within domestic commodities.
The painting-machines originate from industrial remnants: molded styrofoam pieces that once protected appliances like monitors, washing machines, and refrigerators. The artist recycles and reactivates these materials, transforming them into hybrid artifacts that form a larger, fragmented body. Tubes and wires connect the components and set a series of dried plants in motion, creating a kind of mechanical ballet.
The installation evokes a techno-animist mythology, an imagined ecosystem in which machines briefly reanimate dead matter and materials recall their past lives. In dialogue with much of the artist’s previous work, Inmortalistas gives weight and presence to the intangible forces of our technological era. The project draws from retro-futurism, Soviet and Latin American science fiction, and the nineteenth-century mystical manifestos of Russian cosmism.
