Lecture Archive, Sound, Landscape: art research and the production of rhythms

We invite you to a lecture by artist, filmmaker and curator Lorenzo Sandoval. The lecture Archive, Sound, Landscape: art research and the production of rhythms will be held in English.

Date: 20 March 2023
Location: Academy of Fine Arts in Prague room No. 6 U Akademie 4 Praha 7

Archive, Sound, Landscape: art research and the production of rhythms

The work of Sandoval has been dealing in many aspects about the understanding of patterns, from different perspectives. From the understanding of ecosystems and its cycles, going through the impact of industry in nature, to a study of labour conditions, patterns give both access to aesthetics means as tools to approach social constructions. In the talk, Sandoval will introduce two recent projects: "Industry. Matrices, threads and sounds", a project in collaboration with Tono Vizcaíno for IVAM, which the production of an archive about industrial heritage of the Valencian Community in Spain, from the logic of sound and intagible cultures; the second is its current film and archival project on the ecological disaster of Mar Menor and Campo de Cartagena, which deals with three extractivist processes in that area of South Spain: mining in La Unión; construction in La Manga; and agroindustry in Mar Menor. This project is been develop with the support of TBA Academy and Stiftung Kunstfonds.

About Lorenzo Sandoval

Sandoval (Madrid, 1980) works as an artist, filmmaker and curator. He holds a B.F.A and a Masters in Photography, Art and Technology from the UPV (Valencia, Spain). He won the art prize 'Generación 2017' presented in La Casa Encendida (Madrid) and ‘V Beca DKV- Álvarez Margaride’ for ‘Shadow Writing (Algorithm /Quipu)’ at LABoral, Gijón, 2017. Sandoval was nominated for the ‘Berlin Art Prize 2018’ and ‘Premio Arte Contemporáneo Cervezas Alhambra 2020’. He received curatorial prizes such as Inéditos 2011, Can Felipa curatorial prize and Nogueras Blanchard 2012. He presented 'Shadow Writing (Lace/Variations)' in Lehman + Silva Gallery in Porto and Nottingham Contemporary. He was part of 'Canine Wisdom for the Barking Dog. Exploring the sonic cosmologies of Halim El Dabh' curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Kamila Metwaly and Marie Helénè Pereira for Dak'art Biennale 2018. Sandoval was artist in residency with Bisagra in Lima, culminating in an exhibition at Amano Museum Textile Museum. He was part of the Miracle Workers Collective representing Finland in the Venice Biennale 2019. Sandoval presented the film ‘Shadow Writing (Fábrica Colectiva)’ at IVAM Alcoi, a research on the collectivization of factories related to sound. In 2020, “Shadow Writing” was curated at Centro Párraga by Emanuele Guidiwith pieces from all the chapters of the project. He participated in “Here History Began. Tracing the Re/Verberations of Halim El-Dabh” at SAVVY Contemporary, with the commissioned film “The Book of Vibration” on El Dabh. Together with Tono Vízcaino, exhibited ‘Industria. Matrices, tramas y sonidos’ at IVAM in 2021. In 2022, opened 'Las formas que sostienen el discurso' at The Liminal, a collaboration with Floreal Rodríguez de la Paz, with a film on the anarchist monument build in the proximities of the Albatera Concentration camp. In 2018, he started the research for his current research project “Garganta/Brazo/Surco”, which as an output will have a film titled “That summer of ‘22”. Since 2015, Sandoval runs The Institute for Endotic Research, which opened as a venue in 2018.