Hydrophonies

Organized by the Museo de Antioquia of the Museo del Agua-EPM, the exhibition Hydrophonies by Colombian artist Leonel Vásquez will remain open until November 30. Hydrophonies was developed as part of a series of residencies created for Contraexpediciones, a project in which approximately 14 artists worked on collective works that were created in several places across the Antioquia region. Along with his collaborators, Leonel Vásquez performed an exploratory survey along the Medellin River that began in the downtown area of the city and ended at the river's source. It began in the metropolitan area, in the sector of Moravia, Caribe and La Minorista, and then went to El Alto de San Miguel to record the underwater sounds and to create a sound and visual landscape across several underwater points. Based on those experiences, Leonel Vásquez constructed Hydrophonies. Through installations with pure and polluted waters from the Medellin River and the projections of images produced by the vibrations of the very sound created by the water, the proposal generates a sound and visual landscape that reconstructs the irrepresentable experience of that river as a unit of life; of ressonant rhythms and forces that enter into a dialog with "instruments" created by the artist that, when mobilized, generate musics originated on water and wind. About the experience in Counterexpeditions and the creation of Hydrophonies, Leonel Vásquez said: "The river is not a line, it is a timeless weave. That which can be heard in one point of the river is the remission of several events and temporal spaces that are hard to separate; sounds of sounds played in unison, a flow, a source of varied rythms. It is also an interweave of invisible life forms, from a microbian world that reveals a conspicuous aesthetic, to vegetable forms that represent the fragility of life.