Isabel Merchante's 'Programming a Love Letter' Debuts at Purist Gallery, London

Key facts

• 'Programming a Love Letter' is Isabel Merchante's first solo exhibition with Purist Gallery, London.
• The exhibition brings together three projects developed over the past three years: 'Drawings of the Latent Crust' (2023), 'Constellation Creatures' (2026), and 'PCBS (Poetic Cartography of Branching Significances)' (2026).
• The central piece, 'Constellation Creatures,' explores non-human communication through octopus-inspired creatures with integrated LEDs and machine-learning-generated visual patterns.
• 'PCBS' is presented for the first time in this exhibition and materialises the latent space of a neural network using printed circuit boards.
• 'Drawings of the Latent Crust' consists of large-scale ephemeral installations up to 30 metres long, made of photoluminescent stones in remote desert locations.
• Isabel Merchante was born in Madrid in 1999 and is based between London and Madrid.
• Merchante holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art and is completing an MFA in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.
• Her work has been exhibited at institutions including CentroCentro, La Casa Encendida, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Tate Modern, Camden Art Centre, MARCO, Cidade da Cultura de Galicia, and Fondazione Pastificio Cerere.