Amauta García and David Camargo are multidisciplinary visual artists who have collaborated since 2011 on different art, education and collaborative work projects. As a duo, they investigate real estate bubbles and urban extractivism. Through sculptures, public interventions and videos, they share narratives that are at the same time personal, social and political. They have exhibited in Mexico, the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Georgia and Cuba. As resident artists they have been at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (France, 2024-2025), Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (Germany, 2024), Hotel Maria Kapel (Netherlands, 2023), Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands, 2021-2022) , and Border Residences (Germany, 2022). In 2022, they were commissioned to create works of public art by the Stichting NDSM-werf Amsterdam and the Kunstmuseum Bochum. Their film Arrullo had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023, and has been presented at various international film and video festivals. Currently, Amauta is part of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, SNCA, (National System of Art Creators), and David has the support of the Programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales (Program for the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments).

After lulling volcanoes wounded by the mining extraction of natural gas, we wondered if volcanic stone holds the memory of once being lava. During our residency, we continued researching natural gas and the creation of methane through biodigesters, guided by the question: ‚Who has the right to extract elements from the deep layers of the Earth to generate heat-energy, and at what cost?‘ We also discovered that local stores sell volcanic stones for garden use without specifying their origin. We took some of these volcanic stones and modeled ceramic kilns to melt them, briefly returning them to their lava state. With this experience we are learning to be guided by the memory of the materials, in this case, the memory of ceramics and volcanic stone that helps them preserve heat.