INFRAMUNDO
ICA San José, april 18 – august 23, 2026
curated by Zoë Latzer
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a descent into the Maya underworld: where the bodily, the geological, and the digital stop being separate things.
built over six years across the Yucatán Peninsula and Silicon Valley, INFRAMUNDO is an immersive environment of moving image, AI systems, rock sculptures, handwoven hammocks, augmented reality, and bodies that teach stones how to move. inspired by Maya cosmovision and technoshamanism 👻 using human technology and non-human knowledge to build systems that displace ordinary experience and open other ways of sensing the world.
rocks, machines, and avatars as co-participants. visitors are invited to slow down, scream, and feel the cycles of life and death ☄️
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[sueños del inframundo]
2026
ceiling-screen video installation, multi-channel projection, sound, procedural animation, hammocks
procedurally generated subterranean tunnels, never repeating, opening to thunderstorms, underground rivers, and cenotes: entrances to the Maya underworld. the sound is built to be felt through the body. eight handwoven hammocks, made by Edwin Carrillo and collaborators during incarceration, suspend visitors inside it. in the Yucatán, time moves slowly even in storms. the hammocks carry that.
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ritual roca [move rock move]
2026
scrim, two-channel projection, custom software, mylar
actors: Nicté del Carmen, Josué May Chí, Mariana Mendoza, Joselyn Amaya, Anna Díaz, Erick Noj
six performers from Campeche teach rocks to move. from finding stillness like a stone to transmuting breath into motion. here bodies vibrate, flow, and dance until they become geology. custom computer vision software captured their movement and simulated it for over 1,000 years. the resulting data animates digital rocks.
you might move your body.
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other works in the exhibition
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eekcheen [cenote negro]
27 aluminum prints and projection. Maya glyphs reclaimed into a contemporary mural of geological and cosmological time.
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rocks_ [murciélago, jaguar, serpiente y cocodrilo]
four serpentinite rocks suspended by chains, each with a screen and webcam mapping animal spirits onto mineral form in real time.
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Vórtice-en-la-zona-silencio, 2023–2026
six million bats, a cave in Calakmul, and collective stillness as the only way to see them.
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Impacto, 2020–2026
documentary of 20+ short films rooted in the Chicxulub crater, tracing ecological transformation from past to present.
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Ik, negro, noche, 2026
two basalt rocks and a heat sink forming Ik’, the Maya glyph for wind, breath, and life force.
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major support: John Green and Martin Fox, Mercy and Roger Smullen Fund, Ronald Whittier Family Foundation. additional support: City of San José Office of Cultural Affairs, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Applied Materials, Stanford University, San José State University.
Miguel Novelo, INFRAMUNDO, ICA San José, Spring 2026. Photo credit: Shaun Roberts.