The RÍOS TRILOGY by Laura Colmenares Guerra is an installation exploring the Amazon Basin from local and international perspectives. Through this hydrology-based body of work, it explores the relationship between language and the construction and definitions of territory.

It examines pressing socio-environmental challenges faced by the Amazon. Working with language and GIS data on threats from deforestation and resource exploitation, it seeks to identify the meanings we attribute to the Macro-Amazon, a territory politically shaped by nine Latin American countries.

A green-lit room holds 21 3D-printed ceramic reliefs of the basin’s waters. An application archives Amazon Twitter data before it became X.

Visitors navigate R€¥€R$€  - [Award of Distinction] Prix Ars Electronica 2026 Digital Humanity - a VR work layering Indigenous Territories and protected areas against mining, oil, dams, fire and deforestation.

All layers draw on geospatial data from RAISG, exposing extractive pressures reshaping the world’s largest rainforest.

Laura Colmenares Guerra
Negotating Beyond Humanity
Ars Electronica

Laura Colmenares Guerra (CO/BE) is a Colombian artist based in Brussels. Her practice encompasses installation, sculpture, and digital 3D narratives, including animation, XR, and ceramics 3D printing. Working from a research-based approach, she explores the relationships between contemporary Western societies and living ecosystems, questioning constructions of nature, territory, and technology as mediations of reality. Her work often transforms environmental data and topographic information into immersive, sensor-based experiences that connect audiences to distant ecological realities. Recent projects address themes of environmental fragility, interspecies transformation, and the entanglement between extractivist systems and vulnerable territories.

[Award of Distinction] Prix Ars Electronica 2026 Digital Humanity 
“With R€¥€R$€, Laura Colmenares Guerra has created an aesthetically compelling immersive work that introduces viewers to the complexity of one of the world’s most fascinating yet endangered ecosystems: the Amazon region.”

The exhibition Negotating Beyond Humanity—a site for more-than-human encounters at the Ursulinenhof Attics is co-curated by Masha Zolotova.