Descripción de la Exposición
Bajo el Sol and the Institute for Postnatural Studies present «Ser Montaña», an exhibition that crosses three artistic and curatorial practices to address the voice that territory acquires in the face of processes of dispossession, against colonization or in the face of the violence of extractivism.
Through speculative fiction, interspecies communication or active listening, the works of Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Valeria Mata and Infrasonica dialogue with each other about how territories are constituted as entities that are part of the everyday life of their inhabitants and ecosystems, as well as their associated materials and imaginaries. Through different formats -video, installation, online conversation-, all of the works understand the complexity of certain specific places, and how their narrative must include, as protagonists, other non-human beings. From this new constellation, links emerge that exceed the way in which a mountain is usually thought of; as an object, as an image, as land that can be exploited or as a natural space that must be preserved.
Sound, the guiding thread of the exhibition, gives voice to the hill, answers the warning of the bird (Serinus Canaria) through its song -or its silence-, and explores the relationship between the perceptible and the material. Ecology is thus linked to the audible, to the hidden and the sensitive, including frequencies undetectable to human ears, such as the movement of tectonic plates, to narratives and life, configuring a complex landscape of interdependent relationships. Listening is placed at the center of the exhibition as a radical ecological and artistic practice, recovering the echoes of the landscapes of a wounded planet in order to think of new ways of cohabiting its territories.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
