Mit Borrás works on the idea of adaptation: the way the human body, nature and technology alter one another. He is interested in our relationship with the ancestral and with matter, and in how the idea of mortality acts on both. At the centre of his work is the bond we form with engineering, both industrial and affective: prosthetics, biomechanics and robotics, where symbiosis and the spectral come into play. He is also interested in the rites and ceremonies of the present and in what they retain of universal, archaic mythology: their bond with the eternal, the dark and the monstrous.
His works are rituals in the form of essays. They show prosthetics, robots, botanical forms, minerals, mechanical structures, and bodies that meditate, train or dance. Borrás sets ancient practices such as animism and shamanism alongside current ones such as yoga, wellness and rave culture. They all respond to questions about desire, fear, matter and our technical relationship with the body.
These scenes take place in a limbo: calm, aseptic spaces, close to soft caves, made of ergonomic forms, pastel colours and elastic materials. It is an orthophedic vision of the future, sensual and unsettling at once. In that limbo everything is alive and dead at the same time, and everything drifts towards the abyss and entropy. Sound (drone, techno, ASMR), the slow, continuous movement of the camera and choreographies inspired by geological shifts and spiritual dances are as much a part of the work as the image.
He works mainly with video and performance, and also with installation, sculpture and print. Each body of work acts as a chapter of the same story. Together they build a speculative folklore: a possible mythology of the future that depicts the present, engages with the past through myth and projects into what is to come. Progress appears in his work neither as a threat nor as a rescue: what interests him is what we do with it to stay alive, and what that search, and the way we project ourselves into it, says about us.
Core Themes | A central intellectual framework in Mit Borrás’s practice is transhumanism and post-naturalism. His work explores how these philosophies shape human evolution, ethics, and perception in the contemporary era. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Borrás engages with themes such as:
Spirituality and Mortality: Spirituality as an emotional device, its anthropological representations, and death understood not as an endpoint but as a critical lens through which to examine contemporary desires, fears and the modern mythologies that shape our time.
Symbiosis: A philosophical investigation into the harmonious—or conflicted—coexistence of distinct entities, viewed through ontological and anthropological lenses.
Robotics and Biomechanics: The convergence of mechanical and biological systems, often embodied in imagery of prosthetics, exoskeletons, and bodily modifications.
Wellness and Mindfulness: A critical yet open exploration of self-care, meditation, and human optimization, especially in tension with accelerating technological advancements.
Bioethics and Digitality: A probing of the ethical implications of technological innovation—particularly AI and biotechnology—and its consequences for the human condition.
Digital Sensuality: An inquiry into sensory experience as mediated or enhanced by digital technologies, challenging conventional notions of intimacy, emotion, and embodiment.
Borrás also draws on botany and geology, and on the folkloric ties humans keep with the natural world through hedonism and mysticism, exploring the pursuit of youth and eternity in a technologically advanced age.
DAMO TALES | His most acclaimed and recognized work is DAMO TALES, The Adaptation Trilogy, whose body of work Adaptasi has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou and in numerous countries. It has been developed over several years in close collaboration with the artist Rachel Lamot, its creative director,
co-writer and performer, who brings a distinct and recognizable identity to the project. Equally vital is the contribution of musician and composer Daniel Vacas Peralta, whose outstanding soundtrack of dark electronic atmospheres, minimalist textures and uniquely personal harmonies defines the sonic personality of Adaptasi and of the films Drone Tales and Nibarilion. Holy Android features music by the composer Keiichiro Shibuya, drawn from his android opera MIRROR, which is performed by the android Alter4. The film is a
co-production of NOBOMO and ATAK, with Natsumi Matsumoto as production manager.
Sound and Landscape | Sound is an indispensable, immersive component of his practice. As composer, he incorporates his own electronic music to amplify the sensory depth of his installations and video art, and his work blurs the boundaries between film, performance, and installation, drawing viewers into a holistic, mythic realm. His depicted landscapes often feature dystopian elements where natural environments are pushed to extreme desolation, yet retain organic shapes that are cozy, sterile, and distinctly antiseptic.
Key Exhibitions | Mit Borrás’s work has been shown in leading venues and festivals worldwide. Notable exhibitions include: Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); Kunstverein Göttingen (2026); Idaf, Istanbul (2026); Palazzo del Capitanio, Verona (2025); WUF, Basel (2024); Nighttimestory, Los Angeles (2023); Art Dubai, UAE (2022); Goethe-Institut, Los Angeles (2022); Hara Museum, Tokyo (2010); Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin (2016–2021); Tick Tack Gallery, Antwerp (2021); The Wrong Biennale, Paris (2021); Art Cologne (2021); Pylon Hub, Dresden (2021); Harddiskmuseum, Paris (2020); Arebyte Gallery, London (2019); Towards the Last Unicorn, São Paulo (2019); Dimora Artica, Milan (2018); Frontviews in Vienna (2019), Berlin (2018), and Athens (2018); Biennial of Media Arts of Chile (2017); Palacio Fernandini and Art Lima, Lima (2016); Museo de Bellas Artes de Chile (2017); Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin (2013) and Norway (2016); Loop Barcelona (2010, 2015–2019); and Transmediale, Berlin (2011). He has also lectured extensively across the globe.
Studio NOBOMO and Affiliations | Mit Borrás founded CAVVE Studio and now directs NOBOMO, his studio in Madrid, focused on Videoart, Expanded Media, Installation, Digital Art and Performance. The studio serves as a hub for collaborative projects and for research into the relationship between art and anthropology, biomechanics, botany or geology. Borrás has long been associated with the Berlin-based Frontviews collective and the Haunt center, and his work is part of the Frontviews collection, Spectre Union.
Philosophical Basis | Mit Borrás's body of work is a philosophical inquiry into existence in an increasingly digital and technologically driven world. The limbo he returns to is a state of constant transition where conventional binaries dissolve and novel forms emerge. It lets him investigate the fluidity of identity through transhuman entities or cyborgs whose forms defy traditional categorizations of nature and artifice, spirit and machine, gender and flesh.
By synthesizing ancestral wisdom with fictional elements, his work gains a totemic quality, balancing the religious and the technological, and offers a critical lens on bioethics, AI, and the evolving relationship between humanity and its constructed environments.
© NOBOMO | Mit Borrás
His works are rituals in the form of essays. They show prosthetics, robots, botanical forms, minerals, mechanical structures, and bodies that meditate, train or dance. Borrás sets ancient practices such as animism and shamanism alongside current ones such as yoga, wellness and rave culture. They all respond to questions about desire, fear, matter and our technical relationship with the body.
These scenes take place in a limbo: calm, aseptic spaces, close to soft caves, made of ergonomic forms, pastel colours and elastic materials. It is an orthophedic vision of the future, sensual and unsettling at once. In that limbo everything is alive and dead at the same time, and everything drifts towards the abyss and entropy. Sound (drone, techno, ASMR), the slow, continuous movement of the camera and choreographies inspired by geological shifts and spiritual dances are as much a part of the work as the image.
He works mainly with video and performance, and also with installation, sculpture and print. Each body of work acts as a chapter of the same story. Together they build a speculative folklore: a possible mythology of the future that depicts the present, engages with the past through myth and projects into what is to come. Progress appears in his work neither as a threat nor as a rescue: what interests him is what we do with it to stay alive, and what that search, and the way we project ourselves into it, says about us.
Core Themes | A central intellectual framework in Mit Borrás’s practice is transhumanism and post-naturalism. His work explores how these philosophies shape human evolution, ethics, and perception in the contemporary era. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Borrás engages with themes such as:
Spirituality and Mortality: Spirituality as an emotional device, its anthropological representations, and death understood not as an endpoint but as a critical lens through which to examine contemporary desires, fears and the modern mythologies that shape our time.
Symbiosis: A philosophical investigation into the harmonious—or conflicted—coexistence of distinct entities, viewed through ontological and anthropological lenses.
Robotics and Biomechanics: The convergence of mechanical and biological systems, often embodied in imagery of prosthetics, exoskeletons, and bodily modifications.
Wellness and Mindfulness: A critical yet open exploration of self-care, meditation, and human optimization, especially in tension with accelerating technological advancements.
Bioethics and Digitality: A probing of the ethical implications of technological innovation—particularly AI and biotechnology—and its consequences for the human condition.
Digital Sensuality: An inquiry into sensory experience as mediated or enhanced by digital technologies, challenging conventional notions of intimacy, emotion, and embodiment.
Borrás also draws on botany and geology, and on the folkloric ties humans keep with the natural world through hedonism and mysticism, exploring the pursuit of youth and eternity in a technologically advanced age.
DAMO TALES | His most acclaimed and recognized work is DAMO TALES, The Adaptation Trilogy, whose body of work Adaptasi has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou and in numerous countries. It has been developed over several years in close collaboration with the artist Rachel Lamot, its creative director,
co-writer and performer, who brings a distinct and recognizable identity to the project. Equally vital is the contribution of musician and composer Daniel Vacas Peralta, whose outstanding soundtrack of dark electronic atmospheres, minimalist textures and uniquely personal harmonies defines the sonic personality of Adaptasi and of the films Drone Tales and Nibarilion. Holy Android features music by the composer Keiichiro Shibuya, drawn from his android opera MIRROR, which is performed by the android Alter4. The film is a
co-production of NOBOMO and ATAK, with Natsumi Matsumoto as production manager.
Sound and Landscape | Sound is an indispensable, immersive component of his practice. As composer, he incorporates his own electronic music to amplify the sensory depth of his installations and video art, and his work blurs the boundaries between film, performance, and installation, drawing viewers into a holistic, mythic realm. His depicted landscapes often feature dystopian elements where natural environments are pushed to extreme desolation, yet retain organic shapes that are cozy, sterile, and distinctly antiseptic.
Key Exhibitions | Mit Borrás’s work has been shown in leading venues and festivals worldwide. Notable exhibitions include: Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); Kunstverein Göttingen (2026); Idaf, Istanbul (2026); Palazzo del Capitanio, Verona (2025); WUF, Basel (2024); Nighttimestory, Los Angeles (2023); Art Dubai, UAE (2022); Goethe-Institut, Los Angeles (2022); Hara Museum, Tokyo (2010); Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin (2016–2021); Tick Tack Gallery, Antwerp (2021); The Wrong Biennale, Paris (2021); Art Cologne (2021); Pylon Hub, Dresden (2021); Harddiskmuseum, Paris (2020); Arebyte Gallery, London (2019); Towards the Last Unicorn, São Paulo (2019); Dimora Artica, Milan (2018); Frontviews in Vienna (2019), Berlin (2018), and Athens (2018); Biennial of Media Arts of Chile (2017); Palacio Fernandini and Art Lima, Lima (2016); Museo de Bellas Artes de Chile (2017); Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin (2013) and Norway (2016); Loop Barcelona (2010, 2015–2019); and Transmediale, Berlin (2011). He has also lectured extensively across the globe.
Studio NOBOMO and Affiliations | Mit Borrás founded CAVVE Studio and now directs NOBOMO, his studio in Madrid, focused on Videoart, Expanded Media, Installation, Digital Art and Performance. The studio serves as a hub for collaborative projects and for research into the relationship between art and anthropology, biomechanics, botany or geology. Borrás has long been associated with the Berlin-based Frontviews collective and the Haunt center, and his work is part of the Frontviews collection, Spectre Union.
Philosophical Basis | Mit Borrás's body of work is a philosophical inquiry into existence in an increasingly digital and technologically driven world. The limbo he returns to is a state of constant transition where conventional binaries dissolve and novel forms emerge. It lets him investigate the fluidity of identity through transhuman entities or cyborgs whose forms defy traditional categorizations of nature and artifice, spirit and machine, gender and flesh.
By synthesizing ancestral wisdom with fictional elements, his work gains a totemic quality, balancing the religious and the technological, and offers a critical lens on bioethics, AI, and the evolving relationship between humanity and its constructed environments.
© NOBOMO | Mit Borrás