Exhibitions
The Botín Center becomes an acoustic body with the works of Nuno da Luz
The sound installations can be seen until October 19th.
Enredos II: Nuno da Luz, is the new proposal from the Botín Center in the city of Santander with an exhibition to the rhythm of the tides, winds and temperatures characteristic of the Sardinero beach of the Cantabrian city. The Lisbon artist presents a tour where he transforms the environment into an exhibition and intertwines with the oscillations of the building by Renzo Piano and Luis Vidal.
Sound atmosphere inside the museum center that surrounds pieces by Tacita Dean, Eva Fàbregas, Damián Ortega or Jorge Satorre among others. This sound path through the creations of Nuno da Luz is the second chapter of the Enredos program presented by the Centro Botín with a climatic reverberation and curated by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz.
NUNO DA LUZ Collected Airs, 2025 Foto: Belén de Benito
It is an emotional encounter that connects with the collection, but also transports the viewer and listener of Nuno da Luz's works with the building and all the natural environment that is found in the surroundings based on different resonance frequencies. Therefore, it is a journey to see, contemplate, listen and feel. The artist translates the intensities, rhythms and patterns of Santander into sounds that "transform spaces and architecture", he states.
The work of Nuno da Luz (Lisbon, 1984) can be defined as environmental art creating and weaving links with time, tides, wind or climate change. All this translates into intensities, rhythms and patterns of phenomena in sounds that transform spaces and architecture. This project arises from Nuno's interest in the sound sources of the environment and their potential for vibrational transformation, which involves all bodies - be they human, non-human, organic or artificial - through "sympathetic resonance".
Two new installations by the artist have been created for the exhibition: Bay of Santander Sonic Disposal Service and Collected Airs. “I want to bring into the space many different vibrations that occur outside, whether in the air or in the water, filtering them or making them resonate through the walls of the building, with hidden and not so hidden transducers,” says Nuno da Luz.
NUNO DA LUZ Bay of Santander Sonic Disposal Service, Foto: Belén de Benito
Collected Airs has created a set of reverberation units (large suspended steel plates, equipped with a transducer that converts audio signals into physical vibration) that on this occasion are "reimagined" as an instrument, a sculptural presence that interacts with its environment.
To “activate” them, the Lisbon-based artist has invited different performers from the Portuguese music scene to improvise and play with each reverberation unit. Thus, the performance of each of them is recorded and reproduced through the plate assigned to them in the exhibition space, causing the installation to mutate and expand its sound sources with each activation. The plates not only transmit these performances, but also resonate with a live broadcast of ambient sounds coming from outside the Botín Center.
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