REMOVING STRATA WITH THE TONGUE

The artist’s collaborative practice is structured by writing and involves exercises of displacement for both the eye that looks and the voice that narrates. Moving between subsoil and surface, they pass through gases, bones, chemicals, divinities, technologies and plants, in an attempt to subvert the centrality of the subject. The exhibition was accompanied by a performance, in which a mass of text is read uninterruptedly by two voices trying to reach maximum synchronization. However, the irregularity of the breaths and the different nature of the timbres inevitably brings the voices out of sync, paradoxically giving to the overall tone an artificial feel.

The performers are motionless, fully focused on the automatic scrolling of the sentences. The text, for its part, agglutinates a variety of accounts related to a geographical area that has historically been affected by recurring flooding. The descriptions come from fields as diverse as textile industry, paleontology or engineering, and all imply changes of state, ongoing processes or tensions between different forces. Like the water that sweeps away everything that crosses its path, language goes through and merges the entities it describes, erasing any temporal, taxonomic or physical limit.