Parallel Artifacts is an institute whose mission is to identify, document, and interpret various kinds of anomalies found in cultural artifacts: objects, images, and digital remains that exist on the unclear border between documented reality, collective memory, and imaginative reconstruction.
 

Parallel Artifacts works across contemporary art, archaeology, design, and popular culture. Everyday objects, including commercial products, toys, political symbols, outdated media, and other leftovers from the past, are examined by the institute through the rigorous methodology of a museum curator. These objects are analyzed through systems of classification and interpretation that combine academic methods with fiction.
 

The collection includes worn-out promotional materials, prototypes for forgotten projects, impossible relics, and remains of cultural systems that feel both familiar and difficult to authenticate. Together, they reveal the mythological, emotional, and political powers hidden inside mass production.
 

Founded by artist Alejandro Montoya Fuentes, the institute employs the visual and conceptual codes of institutional archaeology while keeping the status of its discoveries open to discussion. To better understand how the collection is organized, classified, and interpreted, visitors can consult the Archive Code page, which explains the cataloguing system used throughout the institute.