Unseen Specimens is an ongoing artistic research project exploring the collections of natural history museums that remain outside public display.

Behind exhibition spaces, museums hold vast archives of preserved specimens that are primarily accessed for research, conservation, and study. These unseen collections raise questions about what becomes visible, what remains outside the public gaze, and how knowledge is shaped through processes of selection and classification.

During my residency at GlogauAIR, I developed a methodology and working protocol for approaching these collections through an artistic practice. The research combines observation, conversations with researchers, documentation, and the study of specimens as both scientific objects and potential sources for fiction.

The research will ultimately take the form of an installation in which real specimens from these collections are translated into new fictional beings through sculptural fabrication and the recreation of evidence. These speculative organisms are then reintroduced into the public realm, creating a dialogue between scientific collections, institutional knowledge, and imagined forms of life.

The project is in its first fieldwork stage, working with the Provincial Museum of Natural Sciences “Dr. Arturo Umberto Illía,” in Córdoba, Argentina.