TRUCE
2021
“Every spiritual practice is a political one”.
Gabriela Mistral
Site-specific video installation. Screened video [7’ in loop], sound composition in binaural audio, object of large branches [5 x 3 m] intervened with sand on the floor.
Truce arises from the articulation of a kind of bridging space, a space of rest and clearing, a place for a pause and clarification. As a place intended to detraumatize the fears that have paralyzed and systematized us, to think about how to set the basis for a new collectivity far from the individual medicated depression, a time/place that doesn’t seek absolute certainties, but rather the chance to perceive new possible worlds. The work turns out to be a metaphor for the place of limbo (if necessary) between chaos and healing that we have experienced in a post-pandemic world; a space that has become a scene waiting for protagonists who seek to forge new possibilities.
Curated by Mario Fonseca and based on the concepts of limbo, ruin and trauma, Truce explores the contemporary setting from an autobiographical perspective through the study and experimentation of EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) for overcoming trauma by means of binaural recordings and eye movement. The sound composition surrounding the deep listening installation combines the sound of strings, the vinyl needle that the artist has been working with for years, and Tibetan bowls, in a provocative and hypnotic cadence inviting the visitor to walk through the work. The composition was part of a musical improvisation session recorded at the Galería Metropolitana and broadcast by the Sonec Sonoteca de Música Experimental y Arte Sonoro for the Audiored V.
The immersive site-specific exhibition was presented at the Galería Metropolitana in November 2021 for the 15th Santiago Media Arts Biennial.
Exhibition photographs by Jorge Brantmayer.
Exhibition footages by André Retes.