Art & Sounds
Sounds in Art
Group exhibition at the International Archaeoacoustics
Symposium
It is known that the movement to re-use existing structures emerged in the 1960s in the United States in response to the dominance of modern museums such as MoMA, the new unconventional spaces have generated a privileged relationship with the audience, often contributing to the regeneration of small communities.
One such example is Convento Chamusca, a historic building transformed into an Artist's Residency, an eclectic concept that gives new life to a historic building located in the heart of Portugal. The building is an unconventional space for exhibiting contemporary artworks, designed as a recognition of a lifestyle in harmony with Nature that immerses visitors and artists in residence in a unique experimental context of imagination and expression.
In this space was organized the International Archeaoacoustics Symposium in which I participated in May 2019. An art exhibition was hosted during the symposium. I had the privilege to exhibit two personal works of photography in the group exhibition called Art and Sounds, Sounds in Art.
The artworks were exhibited in one of the rooms of the monastery with access to the Patio.
The artworks were exhibited in one of the rooms of the monastery with access to the Patio.
The concept of the exhibition was to bring art and sound together, thus I chose to present through images the sound of rain and waterfall, so the two photos I exhibited evoked the sounds of water. In the stone room, the images became audible and, I could hear the roar of the rain or the roar of the waterfall. On this occasion, I realized the power of context over an object or an image.
Waterfall
