Luis Enrique Zela-Koort: Upstairs IV – Devenir cosmos

To become cosmos is to transform oneself into a bodily bridge between the universe and lived experience—a complicity with vitality, mutation, and the infinite possibilities of matter. It is the multiverse embodied in every multicellular organism, and the omniverse concentrated in an anthill. To become cosmos is to become a universe while remaining part of a Universe.

Each space in the exhibition “Luis Enrique Zela-Koort: Upstairs IV – Devenir cosmos” generates embryonic atmospheres that envelop the viewer; the painting are by the artist Luis Enrique Zela-Koort while the design pieces are in collaboration with Galería Cordoba. Curved, galactic ovoid forms coexist with genetic chains and generational tables. “Cosmic Rays (I)” (2025) offers a sidereal dawn opposite historic furniture that has shaped futuristic imaginaries, such as Robert Propst and George Nelson’s Action Office Desk, shown in “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Together, they form environments in which the future—as a collective space—can be nurtured within settings that feel both inhabitable and familiar, yet subtly lift the psychedelic veil of normality. As Donna Haraway reminds us, “the boundaries between science fiction and social reality are an optical illusion”.

The exhibition stages a curated dialogue between contemporary art and design, between minimalist aesthetics and biological surrealism, to reflect on how we create and cultivate the ecological and communal universes we inhabit.

Ancestral materialities, contemporary technologies, and speculative realities collide—interlacing the elemental and the human to reveal new, possible horizons.