cones #1 - 11 + object 01 (escuchar la piedra. escuchar el viento), 2024. Mixed media: wild local clay, commercial clay, stones, minerals, glass. 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)
cones #1 - 11 and object 01 are a serie of sculptures currently on view at The 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). The works are part of a greater project called: escuchar la piedra. escuchar el viento. (listen to the stone. listen to the wind), 2024- present.
escuchar la piedra. escuchar el viento., is compose of graphic notations, audios, videos, map classification of collected local clays, and multiple mixed media objects developed during more than a year of landscape contemplation, collection and experimentation with audio-visual material, minerals, discarded organic material, paper, glass, wild and commercial clay, to explore their qualities and sound possibilities. The minerals and clays 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, the rain, the wind, the erosion and the human trace brought and left. The project represent the desire to reverse the eroded status (natural/social/political) of the local landscape, through collection, documentation, classification, drawings and mineral petrification through 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.
Installation view: Taller Comunidad La Goyco (2024).
escuchar la piedra. escuchar el viento. (listen to the stone. listen to the wind), 2024- present. Mixed media: Clay, stones, graphical notations, minerals, recycled paper, audio visual materials, map and classification of collected clays. Variable dimensions.
photo: Raquel Pérez Puig