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2021
Natural
Magic
VIDEO
The Sun is Counting
the Earth’s Rotations
The Sun is Counting the Earth’s
Rotations
2022
HD & 16mm video
09:51
Installation view
at MNCARS
Hearing Forms
A myriad of particles shake in the air casting glittering shines and drawing a cloud of
shapes they swiftly blend into a new different configuration. All by art of
ondulatory phenomena and as a result of a vibrating plaque, a top of a subwoofer and a
frequency generator called Chladni Plaque. All this illusional close-up of particle movement
is fuelled by an out-of-scope machinery in charge of translating sound into movement, a
visual language indebted with the mechanics of fluids and particle movement in wave
phenomena. Hence, we encounter a floating screen; we access a reflection in which bodies
merge like ground in diminute particle, atomizing it into an iridescent mantle of dust.
What we contemplate here is, perhaps, a dynamic conversion of languages: from
a sonorous one, –a song of frequencies– we arrive to another well differentiated, visual but
equally changing and malleable, linked to that other sonic and dynamic, marching side to
side. It pursues this mechanism as a whole the unveiling of secret languages: those, which
could not otherwise be obtained. And animated by the sound waves, a world of changing
abstract forms that move through the plane is open, giving rise to new ones, jumping from
the figurative to the geometric and abstract.
Hearing Forms
2021
16mm video
In-camera
editing
11:13
Breathings of the
Moon
Breathings of the Moon, part of the performance with the same name, shows an expedition into
the underwater worlds of the Venice Lagoon and its canals. Rooted in the idea of a magical
trick, it follows the logic of amusement pre-scientific artefacts that looked at the world
and its different scales with eyes anew. Recognizing the water through an instrument and
resonating with the canal.
Breathings of the Moon
2022
HD & 16mm
video
21:30
PERFORMANCE
Breathings of the
Moon
Breathings of the Moon functions as both performance and expedition into the underwater
worlds of the Venice Lagoon and its canals. Structured as a liturgy of quasi-theatrical
progressive steps to be taken: to hold the hand of the rower (eternal storyteller), to
descend into a vessel, to enter the belly of a quasi-fish and to get used to the dark.
Looking into the water through an instrument, resonating with the rower, lagoon rhythms,
embodying a multiplicity of tidal patterns, to come back anew, return changed, amused and
amazed, disembarking elsewhere, close, but elsewhere, perhaps on a much more complex realm.
Breathings of the
Moon
2022
Performance
Video viewing through a periscope in
a Venice gondola
SCULPTURES
Red Giant
Red Giant are a sort of formally semi-circular iron plates that, in turn, work as a fan when
passing. They support, right in their centre, a microcosm reminiscent of a
large nebula. Like in astrophysics is often stated, we are indeed stardust and precisely
here a kind of stellar wind surfaces in an odd game of scale and weights. The mysterious
dance that Leonor Serrano Rivas invites us to experience introduces different registers
ranging from the handmade to the technological and implying a stealthy leap of scales from
the micro to the macro. And, this one, reveals what defines serendipity, and that is that in
the construction of knowledge rests the accident, the chance beyond the discovery or
conscious search.
Laura Vallés Vílchez, Londres
Febrero 2022
Red Giant nº 1
2022
Sculpture
Iron,
thread and glass
329 x 120 x 1 cm
Red Giant nº 2
2022
Sculpture
Iron,
thread and glass
329 x 120 x 1 cm
Red Giant nº 3
2022
Sculpture
Iron,
thread and glass
329 x 75 x 1 cm
Red Giant nº 4
2022
Sculpture
Iron,
thread and glass
329 x 75 x 1 cm
Stardust
Stardust is a series of crystals painted with metals and nitrates at high temperatures.
These plates are placed facing each other creating a faceted polyhedron,
acting as a galaxy of possible worlds. Suspended by fine threads, this series of world
crystals reminds us of the fragility with which a cosmos is sustained while blowing a cosmic
wind that seems to go through everything: earth, man, animal and universe. A cosmos hanging
by a thread, a world made of dust.
Stardust
2022
11 x 7 x 0,2cm
Glass,
colour glass, silver nitrates and silicates.
Tables of the Moon
Tables of the Moon takes its name from the moon boards of E.W. Brown, who tried to
synthesise the information on the moon. Brown, who tried to symphonize the
movements and rotations of the moon on tablets, reduced them to basic representations
written down on cardboard, in a rather abstract way.
Our loom would then be situated between mind and hand, reason and memory: it relates to the
translation of music onto punched cards, and then creating a pattern that can finally be
inhabited, stepped on, touched, looked at, and performed through music.
Tables of the Moon
2022
Variable
measures
Dyed combed cotton and viscose rayon
Jacquard weavings
made out of music box scores
2022
Variable measures
Punched
cards
Cardboard punched cards that contain the music track of the
film.
Percussion cymbals with music boxes made out of
the score of the film soundtrack.
Sound Design:
Daniel
Goddard
Georgie Goddard
2022
Variable measures
Music boxes
Astrologist/astronomer
Fictional
conversations between an Astronomer and an Astrologist
Building on a previous series of works (Stars’ Dust) -small pieces of glass in which
silicates and other chemical elements are burnt in the kiln, replicating a process similar
to that undergone by stars at birth - Nubulosa Clouds (2023) is the first textile piece from
a larger serie in which the fusing glass is transformed into a negative version, this time
textile. In this way the white glass becomes black welf, the copper nitrate that makes up
the reds becomes blue warp, and so they become more similar to what would be a vision of the
cosmos. Afterwards, these images have been given to an astronomer and an astrologer in order
to interpret them as if they were visions of the universe or astrological charts
respectively. Thus, a haphazard - but also bordering on the alchemical - process of
constructing an image (Star Dust, 2022) takes a new twist and pretends to be an agent with
its own entity to be interpreted where scientific and pseudo-scientific knowledge orbit at
the same level.
Nebulosa Clouds
2023
Textile (rayon,
viscose, cotton warpo) and brass
94x62x40 cm
Violent Birth of the Stars
2023
Textile
(rayon, viscose, cotton warpo) and brass
94x60x40 cm
Snow Moon
2023
Textile (rayon, viscose,
cotton warpo) and brass
94x62x40 cm