escuchar la piedra. escuchar el viento. (listen to the stone. listen to the wind), 2024- present. Mixed media: Clay, stones, minerals, paper, audio visual materials. Variable dimensions. Installation view: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum as part of the Installation of Unruly Subjects by Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Carlos J. Soto in Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial (2024-2025)
Series of acoustic sculptures, graphic notations, videos, objects, collected and developed from more than a year of contemplation, collection and experimentation with audio-visual material, minerals, discarded organic material, wild and commercial clay, to explore their qualities and sound possibilities. The materials were collected on the side of the road, representing particles or fragments of Puerto Rico’s archipelago. They are residues of landslides and constructions; what the tide, rain, wind, erosion and human trace brought and left. They represent the desire to reverse the eroded status (natural/social/political) of the local landscape, through collection, documentation, drawings and its petrification in fire. The clay objects are conceived as containers of air and resonance, they are an invitation to explore the perception of sound in relation to the body and the landscape. The forms and textures take as reference natural elements of the archipelago such as the sea, rivers, mangroves, the wind, shells and caves.
escuchar la piedra. escuchar el viento. (listen to the stone. listen to the wind), 2024- present. Mixed media: Clay, stones, minerals, paper, audio visual materials. Variable dimensions. Installation view: Taller Comunidad La Goyco (2024)
photo: Raquel Pérez Puig