Kyla Bosque

Kyla is an artist and designer working across moving image and experimental media. Their practice explores the intersections of technology, climate and identity through speculative works. Kyla works across video, 3D animation, Camera/Sound Reactive Visuals, and VR. Conceptually, their work explores climate futures and identity through speculative and sensory world-building. They draw from Southeast Asian aesthetics, diasporic experiences, and club culture as a way of imagining alternative futures that centre community, resilience, and play. They are interested in climate not only as a crisis, but as atmosphere: humidity, heat, sound, texture, and the emotional states they induce. In the face of climate crisis, is the entire world not destined for a tropical future? Kyla developed creative work within Sydney's independent arts and music scenes, collaborating with organisations such as Casula Powerhouse, Blacktown Arts, Think+Do Tank, ACON, ACE Parramatta, and Pari Parramatta. Contributions have included, digital media, live stage and creative campaigns for community-focused events and arts programs.

This work considers humidity and wetness as both a climatic condition and a form of infrastructure. Through a constructed wetland composed of native plants, water, fog, and salvaged building materials, the installation produces its own atmosphere—one that exists somewhere between the artificial and the organic. The work brings together materials associated with construction, containment, and development alongside living plant species that are commonly found in wetland and subtropical environments. Within the installation, water is circulated, fog is continuously generated, and moisture is encouraged to settle on surrounding surfaces. These systems create a humid microclimate that supports growth while making otherwise invisible environmental processes visible. Construction materials become supports for vegetation, while plants slowly occupy and transform the structures around them. Moisture gathers on synthetic surfaces, water stains accumulate, and traces of biological activity emerge throughout the installation. Over the course of the exhibition, the environment shifts through growth, condensation, evaporation, and decay. Plants adapt to their surroundings, surfaces weather, and the atmosphere changes in response to both the installation's internal systems and external environmental conditions. Rather than remaining fixed, the work exists in a continual state of transition.

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