La plaga, el provecho [The plague, the profit] traces the connections between colonial extractivism, species displacement, Baroque painting, and the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire. Composed of a dizzying sequence of macro photographs, the video suggests a metamorphosis of forms and a contamination between images, provoking hallucinatory visions. The text, delivered by a distant, worn female voice, evokes the final turns of a motor that has stopped but continues spinning by inertia. Bringing the camera within an inch of the movements of sensitive matter, the remnants of trade, the fading of a color, and the hands of those who still care for this insect, the video asks whether a myopic focus can generate a counter-image to dominant narratives.