High, Relief

2023

single-channel video, tactile transducers, power amplifier, stereo audio



High, Relief (Alto, Relieve) is an audio-visual essay recorded and filmed in Las Manchas cemetery, in the aftermath of the 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption in La Palma, the most northwesterly of the Canary Islands. As the volcano calms down, tremors produced by seismic activity are occasionally difficult to differentiate from those of anthropogenic origin. The work approaches residual vibrations in human and mineral debris as interferences between the factual and the conjectural.

Exhibited at Memory and Matter, NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, NL

This work is the result of a residency in 2022 in La Palma, Spain, supported by TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes.














Photography: Nicola Baratto