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SOFT GEOLOGY

2022 - NOW

Soft Geology explores coral reefs as living geological memory—where biology becomes sediment, and time is recorded through formation, erosion, and pressure.

 

In soft-rock geology, coral structures accumulate over millennia to form limestone and fossilized reef systems, preserving ancient marine environments while shaping porous underground landscapes.

These works translate underwater movement into layered visual studies of fragility, rhythm, and transformation, positioning the reef as both ecosystem and archive—an evolving record of impermanence.

Soft geology #8

29.7 × 42 cm

Acrylic regular house paint on paper

EARTH IN MOTION

2021 - NOW

'The Earth moves, and we move with it. '— B.Trevino

Earth in Motion explores the unseen forces that continuously shape the planet—tectonic pressure, shifting plates, erosion, and subterranean movement.

Through layered abstraction and material experimentation, Bianca Treviño translates geological energy into visual rhythm, tension, and flow. Each work reflects the instability and transformation embedded within the landscape, where surface forms become traces of deeper planetary motion.

Positioned between observation and abstraction, the series examines Earth not as static terrain, but as a living system in continuous formation

Earth in Mothin #3

50 × 140 cm

Acrylic and pastels  on canvas

WILD EXTINCTION

2014 - on going

'For those who cannot speak.' — B. Trevino

Wild Extinction is a decade-long investigation into endangered species, fragile ecosystems, and the impact of human overconsumption. Through drawing, sculpture, and socially engaged practice, Bianca Treviño translates ecological urgency into visual and tactile form.

The project has expanded into educational booklets, hand-printed textiles, and proposals for public installations, creating bridges between art, learning, and environmental awareness across communities and generations.

The project continues to evolve beyond traditional exhibition contexts, expanding into public environments such as zoos, where it seeks to foster direct encounters between audiences, wildlife, and conservation narratives.

At its core, Wild Extinction reflects on fragility,

transformation, and resilience — revealing the interconnectedness between human systems and the natural world. Moving between observation, storytelling, and material experimentation, the work functions as both poetic documentation and a quiet call to attention.

CREATIVE MINDS

2014

'The mind builds worlds before the hands ever move.'

— B.Trevino

Creative Minds is a series of drawings exploring the inner landscapes of thought, imagination, and perception. Each work traces the delicate threshold between idea and form — where intuition, memory, and curiosity converge.

Through line, gesture, and repetition, the drawings reveal the vulnerability and strength of the thinking mind, honoring the quiet architecture of creativity as a living, evolving space.

BRITTLE GIANTS

2013

'Glaciers hold time, slipping through our fingers.'

— B.Trevino

Brittle Giants reflects on the grandeur and fragility of glaciers — monumental forms shaped over millennia yet disappearing within decades.

Through sculpture, Bianca Treviño translates their scale, surface, and luminous presence into tangible form, capturing the tension between permanence and dissolution. The series invites reflection on impermanence, climate change, and the fragile balance between human presence and planetary forces.

ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE

2010

'Extraction is architecture, energy is art.. '

— B.Trevino

Energy Infrastructure investigates the material and political systems that shape contemporary life. Drawing inspiration from the lithium mines of Uyuni and global industrial supply chains, the series reflects on how human desire transforms landscapes into zones of extraction.

Lithium — often referred to as “white gold” — and mass-produced textiles circulate as markers of value, revealing the ecological and social consequences embedded in global consumption. Through painting, Bianca Treviño explores the tension between natural fragility and industrial monumentality, exposing the invisible infrastructures that sustain modern life and the costs they leave behind.

EPICENTER: HOUSE MEMORY

2008

'We are built on the epicenters of inherited and received information...  how we evolve is our choise.

— B.Trevino

Epicenter: House of Memory is a sculptural series that explores home as a site of accumulated pressure, where cultural inheritance, personal history, and external influence converge.

The works present unstable architectures in which walls expand, fracture, and resist collapse, as if built on shifting tectonic ground. Within this instability, domestic structures begin to transform into explosive, star-like forms constructed from rolled and assembled fragments of printed media.

This gesture reflects the saturation of contemporary life by information and cultural narratives, revealing how external inputs generate internal pressure, fragmentation, and transformation. Like an epicenter — or a detonation of light — the true rupture occurs beneath the surface, where memory and identity are continuously reshaped.

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