Lucía Selva

Tecnowar will break your heart

‘Drawing from an archive of war images compiled on Telegram and produced from the perspective of aggressors in the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Palestine”, explains Lucía Selva, ‘the piece analyse the new paradigm of warfare inaugurated by both conflicts’. It does so through the typologies of images generated by war, reflecting on the role of the image in present-day conflicts. The migration of conflict into urban environments has driven the development of technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence, virtualising the battlefield and distancing the body from acts of violence. In this context, images cease to operate merely as testimony and become an active component of the apparatus of war. From them emerges a technologically mediated, automated, and dislocated gaze turned into a weapon: an image that kills.

Bio

Lucía Selva (Granada, 1998) studied Cinematography at ESCAC, specialising as a Director of Photography. Her interest in the craft of filmmaking and the creation of new languages and aesthetics has led her to work in photography, music videos, non-fiction, and video essays, drawn to experimentation with different media, digital creation, and light. The world première of her first feature film, Quién vio los templos caer (Who Saw the Temples Fall, 2025) took place at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), where it received a Special Jury Mention. After completing her master’s degree in Creation at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, she is currently developing her second feature film while working on short films and installation projects that expand her research into the moving image.