The artist Adrián Villar Rojas is part of the Aichi Triennale 2025. The 6th edition of the Triennale will bring together 60 artists from 22 countries and territories, each selected for their relevance to the theme, A Time Between Ashes and Roses. 

Adrián Villar Rojas presents Terrestrial Poems, a site-specific installation commissioned for the triennial, occupying the entire former Seto Fukugawa Elementary School. Digitally rendered ecologies inhabited by early human species, including Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans, materialise as layered composites of organic, inorganic, human-made, and machine-made matter.
These simulations operate through what might be called a synthetic gaze: data meshes, glitches, and digital textures that reconstruct deep ancestry not as neutral archives but as contested realities. Through them, the work interrogates what it means to be human—why we cling to stories of evolution, and how those stories have been mobilized to justify violence. The project understands that reconstructing our prehistoric past is a political act, that our heritage includes more-than-human species, and that forces of extinction, memory, and technology shape this inheritance.
This commission also features a series of urban interferences by Argentine artist Graciela Sacco (1956-2017), whose practice explored storytelling, migration, political conflict, and their entanglements with daily life through photography, video, installation, and heliographic techniques.

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