Patterns carry social bonds and cosmological orientation across generations. Clay receives the trace of global metrics, returning financial abstraction to material ground. Mapping loosens from its colonial function of demarcation and becomes a means of holding contested memory. The works in this exhibition situate technology within longer histories of adaptation and obligation rather than novelty alone. The works suggest that technics take shape under pressure – revised, re-inscribed and carried forward as conditions change. Invention here is inseparable from inheritance. Processes unfold gradually, sustained across generations and reactivated when survival demands it.

This is not a nostalgic return. Continuity appears as an active, negotiated practice. Innovation depends on what has been carried forward; sovereignty and collective life find room within systems of extraction through inscription, weaving, counter-coding, ritual and strategic refusal.

The exhibition of the IMPAKT Festival 2026: Techno-Ancestrality is a proposition: that the tools shaping our future remain entangled with older forms of knowledge, and that the future itself is accountable to those who have sustained it.

Artworks on show at BAK Basecamp: Jimmy Carillo, Angelina Kumar, Isaiah Lopaz, Thania Petersen, Marcel Pinas, aniara rodado and Lorena Solís Bravo & Beáta Kolbašovská

Credits: What remains in the Air by Jimmy Carillo