Like aliens

For his ‘Biosphere Project’, the Argentinian artist and engineer Joaquín Fargas isolates ‘natural ecosystems in completely sealed containers where the only interaction with the environment is through heat and light’. These small, self-contained worlds are meant to comment on the fragility and deep interconnectedness of life on our own planet. The project reflects Fargas’s enduring commitment to creating engaging, accessible art that speaks to the urgency of the climate crisis. In his portrait of the ‘Biosphere Project’, the Argentinian filmmaker Nico Muñoz captures Fargas’s process with his own artistry, melding inventive camera angles and patient observation with archival footage from space missions and the dreamy piano of Claude Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’.ViaLabocine