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Patricia Domínguez (1984, Santiago, Chile) lives and works in Puchuncaví, Chile. Her work focuses on tracing digital and spiritual relationships between living species in an increasingly corporate cosmos. Through a wide variety of media, Domínguez draws upon new myths, rituals and healing practices, combining artistic imagination with experimental research on ethnobotany and extractivism. Domínguez works with watercolours, ceramics, sculptural assemblages and video installations to create shrine-like imagery derived from a visual vocabulary that spans from plant intelligence, corporate wellness schemes and the digital world. Her multi-layered artistic approach is informed by the wide scope of her education and research; her MFA from Hunter College, New York is supplemented by a Botanical Illustration Certificate from the New York Botanical Garden, a residency at CERN to learn about quantum physics, non-locality and entanglement, and time spent in Peru learning from a healer and researching beliefs around interconnectivity and multi-species spirit in the plant world. Domínguez is also the founder of Studio Vegetalista, an experimental platform for ethnobotanical research based in Chile.