SAM is a multimedia installation composed of video screens, silicone sculptures, found and fictional objects scaffolded in a hybridized surgical operating room, slaughterhouse and archival display. A genetic experiment, in the form of a voracious surgical operation inflicted upon an unidentified body, is framed in a museum-like displacement of mythological artifacts. The structure is a living organism, pulsating and feeding each element with its artificial veins. The mechanization processes of operating, slaughtering and archiving are intrinsically dovetailed in an organic interlock.

Two parallel worlds are brought together. A theater room is a place where bodies undergo physical changes and transformations, being opened and modified according to their needs. By reshaping the somatic morphology, surgical operations - usually performed by a surgeon or a doctor - have the ability of creating new subjects and reintegrating them in the sociopolitical context as different individuals. Operating rooms are, in fact, artificial gestational wombs that produce mechanized bodies whose biology has been altered, creating a mechanical life. An archive provides an infrastructure of ordering, cataloging and codifying. Museums and archival institutions - online and offline - offer a set of knowledge that has been allegedly ‘approved’ or commonly accepted as ‘verified’.
SAM follows a new logic of production which challenges the ordinary structure of storytelling. By providing multiple contingencies of each story’s perspective the viewer actively engages in the repurposing of the materials themselves. The viewer becomes the surgeon, the archivist and the slaughtered animal.
The multimedia structure is an organic machine, a (re)production of an archival system, an organ that produces fictional stories and makes them real. Isn’t reality a process of performativity that we all fall into belief?
What happens when a reality is modified with the same violence and intrusiveness through which a surgeon penetrates a body? What if the whole process of the archival system turns into a slaughterhouse, in which books and artifacts are ravingly obliterated, depleted and reproduced in uncontrollable streams?