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Detail d_iOS

d_iOS presents itself as a digital-archaeological idol, a hybrid between pre-Hispanic deities, baroque altarpieces, and the saturated iconography of contemporary screens. Its surface fuses plexiglass and neon with quartz, jade, and Wixárika beadwork, producing a shrine where sacred matter coexists with mass-produced plastic. The result is an image at once archaic and futuristic, devotional and technological.

Front view d_iOS

In the background, glyphs from the Codex Nuttall are set alongside WhatsApp emojis. Although separated by more than five centuries, their graphic clarity renders them curiously contemporary. By placing these visual languages side by side, Huacuja highlights how symbolic systems—ancestral or digital—function as codes of communication, myth, and power.

Here, Tlaloc reappears not as an ancient rain deity but as a techno-god of the digital age: an icon reframed by circuitry, light, and saturation. d_iOS thus becomes both altar and interface, collapsing history into a present where myth and code, devotion and consumption, converge.

Installation view d_iOS

Installation  (three quarter view), d_iOS, 2018

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    d_iOS, 2018

    d_iOS presents itself as a digital-archaeological idol, a hybrid between pre-Hispanic deities, baroque altarpieces, and the saturated iconography of contemporary screens.

  • Technical Sheet

    Wood, plexiglass, spray paint, wixarika huichol, gold and silver leaf, lego, neon light, led light

  • Dimensions

    80 x 180 x 12 cm

  • Weight

    50 kg

Esteban Huacuja

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© 2026 Esteban Huacuja  Studio

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