「シエの歌」展 スペイン語：Canción de Sie、英語：Song of Sie
Sakai Machi. Ibaraki, Japan, December 20, 2023-January 16, 2024
The exhibition features video, sound elements, projection mapping, prints, photographs, installation, and performance that explore the inter-relation between art and ecology. Through the different interlocking motifs and multidisciplinary elements Song of Sie triggers the viewer's ideas of the Andean highlands, mentally prompting them to compose in their own minds a journey through these magical places of seemingly endless water sources and unique biological species.
The exhibition is structured around the cartographic exploration, documentary photographic images, sound elements, and prints aimed at heralding a sensorial experience on fundamental natural resources, however, lesser-known territory in the Andes. Each individual element in the exhibition is connected and understood through the other, one of no more value than the other. Song of Sie is thus a journey of discovery– the art is the search for a form in which the sensorial and the experiential are uniquely joined.
The epicenter of the exhibition is Páramos, el País de las nieblas (2022) (Paramós, The Misty Land), a 60 minutes documentary and multimedia project that seeks to document Colombian Andean region highland’s current biological, social, and territorial situation. An exhibition visitor can watch the projects from beginning to end, or enter at any point, allowing the interactive components, imagery, and sound to capture her/his perceptual experience. The richness of visual and aural associations characterizing the Páramos, el Pais de las nieblas project promotes an alternative kind of language; not just a narrative-seeking storyline, but also of the vast cloud of sensations and feelings that these magical territories evoke.
