Price by request

Artwork Description

In Untitled (2023), Jorge Mayet constructs a suspended landscape where territory, domestic architecture, and organic matter converge in a scene of intense symbolic tension. The work depicts a rural dwelling resting on a floating fragment of land, invaded by an octopus whose tentacles emerge from beneath the surface and physically penetrate the interior of the house, collapsing the boundary between outside and inside, between shelter and threat. The octopus—an ambiguous figure associated with adaptation, invasion, and silent control—acts as an organism that colonizes the inhabited space. Its tentacles traverse the terrain and enter the domestic structure, suggesting a forced dependency between the home and the concealed entity that sustains it. The house ceases to function as a place of protection and instead becomes an extension of the octopus’s body, locked into an organic and asymmetrical relationship. Through the use of metal wire, cold porcelain, polyurethane, synthetic fibers, and acrylic paint, Mayet constructs a hybrid topography where the natural and the artificial collapse into one another. The exposed cross-section of the soil reveals the invisible layers of the territory, reinforcing notions of extraction, occupation, and erosion. The work does not propose a static landscape, but a living and vulnerable system in which human habitat is infiltrated by forces operating from below—questioning the very stability of the idea of home.