Exhibitions
Tandem of the sound and ritualistic phenomenon with Echo de boira by Raquel G. Ibáñez
The work explores thresholds and liminal spaces, investigating their genealogies, symbologies and the fictions that arise from limit experiences, while considering sound as a language and visual experience. Raquel G. Ibáñez creates Echo de boira at Sant Andreu Contemporani which will be on view until September 6.
Echo of Fog, awarded the 2024 Miquel Casablancas Prize in the project category, proposes an investigation into the connection between sound, ritual and popular meteorology. Within this framework, the research delves into the study of the practices of conjuring or exorcising storms —current until the 19th century—, the spaces linked to these rituals and the figure of the Tente Nube.
The proposal is materialized in an installation made up of large-format drawings printed on metal, conceived as sound cartographies of the research process, and an audio piece. The latter is made from field recordings made in winter weather conditions in northern Spain, as well as records of Tente Nube rings —obtained in collaboration with groups of bell ringers, such as the Villavante school in León—, using different capture systems such as omnidirectional, binaural and geophone microphones.
A piece created from recordings with sound processing and filtering systems together with other instruments such as idiophones. Through drawing, conceived as a graph and trace in dialogue with sound, ways of transmitting and materializing the concerns that run through the theoretical body are investigated.
Among his most notable projects are Echo de boira (2024), the piece by Sant Andreu Contemporani, Granate (2023), an artistic publication focused on symbology and expanded writing, and Registre de vents menors (2025), a sound piece that explores the relationship between sound and space.
