10/11/2020
We are pleased to present UNEARTH (Soundworks) by Lucía Hinojosa at UK Mexican Arts Society.
The work of Lucía Hinojosa is primarily concerned with the materiality of language, its sounds, its visual and performative components, as well as the tension between the body and its environment.
This inquiry has led her to experiment with the act of re-writing and its effects upon mediums of representation and anti-representation, questioning how language drives an urge to articulate representation while also being a medium of abstraction. This openness to the roots of language also informs Hinojosa’s deep involvement with the natural environment. Apart from classifying and ordering the world around us, words react to the body’s haptic reverberations, through breath as well as the myriad things and beings that surround us. In this way, ecological conditions are vital elements within the artist’s process, creating a dialogue with the technologies and media of writing: the book, the page, the pen, the pencil, the keyboard, the typewriter.
Despite the most important component in the pieces is the materiality of sound, it is accompanied or updated in the visual representation of the voice. Hinojosa creates scores/instructions and concrete poems to build a tension between the legibility and the visual aspect of sound. Additionally, in each of these fluctuations, sematic frontiers between English and Spanish languages dovetail and are effaced.
-Adriana Melchor
We are pleased to present UNEARTH (Soundworks) by Lucía Hinojosa.
This exhibition has been forced to mutate as a result of the confinement and social distancing policies that have been imposed during this pandemic. Conceived at first as an installation within the space of a white cube, UNEARTH (Soundworks) now takes to the streets while we lock ourselves down again. The challenge of being heard and seen requires the works be installed in public spaces allowing both intimacy with the viewer, as well as other factors such as ambient sounds and meteorological conditions to permeate and interact with the works.