Leo Castañeda: Camoflux Recall Grotto

Commissioned for the 2026 edition of the Whitney Biennial, Leo Castañeda’s Camoflux Recall Grotto is a web-based game that prompts players to cultivate a garden in a primordial landscape. Inspired by the Brazilian Amazon forest and South Florida Everglades, as well as works by Colombian artists Maria Thereza Negreiros, Ever Astudillo, and Alfonso Quijano, Camoflux Recall Grotto challenges traditional gameplay. It resists the typical patterns of rapid progression by simulating a meditative, cozy loop when there are few seeds to cultivate and speeding up when the organisms multiply beyond susta…