Vibeke Mascini

Vibeke Mascini employs fluid and interdisciplinary media—including video, installation, sound, and text—to investigate how abstract phenomena can be experienced and perceived on a sensory level. Her work seeks to cultivate a sense of agency through intimacy, often emerging from long-term collaborations with scientists, engineers, musicians, and public institutions. Through these projects, she explores the flow and transformation of energy, highlighting the interconnections between species, media, nature, matter, and electricity, and proposing a conscious awareness of the entanglement inherent in these systems. Her installations examine the material and conceptual relationships between energy sources and their human or environmental users, blending perceptual experience, memory, and cutting-edge technological processes in the realm of energy storage. Mascini often draws on unconventional and provocative sources of electricity, such as whale fat, melting glaciers, confiscated cocaine, or human remains, to create works that reflect both the potential and the destructive processes inherent in energy transformation. By framing these sources within immersive, sensorially charged installations, she invites viewers to engage with the tension, ethical considerations, and poetic resonance of energy as it moves from origin to usage, transforming invisible forces into tangible and emotionally resonant experiences. ...

Proyectos Ultravioleta was founded in Guatemala City in 2009 as an independent artist-run space, and has since established itself as a leading voice in contemporary art in Latin America and beyond.