Adrián Villar Rojas
Untitled (From the Series The Language of the Enemy)

Adrián Villar Rojas constructs worlds in which past, present, and future merge. Recognized for fantastical, site-specific installations that incorporate unfired clay, concrete, and other organic materials rooted in ancient history, Villar Rojas considers the impact of human activity on the planet across time, with a focus on the ways in which humans give form to meaning. In advance of his two-floor exhibition First Gods, Lost Animals, opening at the Aspen Art Museum in summer 2026, the Museum co-commissioned Untitled (From the Series The Language of the Enemy) with Audemars Piguet Contemporary. First presented in Le Brassus, Switzerland, the sculpture—a life-size triceratops skull from which the Venus of Lespugue emerges—will travel to Aspen, where it forms a part of his environmental transformation of the Museum, collapsing boundaries between fossil and artifact, nature and culture.

The video documents the development of the work and its initial presentation, featuring conversations with Villar Rojas, Aspen Art Museum Curator-at-Large Claude Adjil, and Audemars Piguet Contemporary Curator Audrey Teichmann.