Maria Adela Diaz in collaboration with Joaquin Orellana created an interactive sound installation as a way to evoke an ecological “state”  by producing an immersive experience through sound, movement and co-creation. The collective communion with water is expressed by an almost vertebral instrument to be played by the public and a  specially created contemporary music masterpiece invites participation in taking action to create yet another layer of sound.The installation will evolve every second and create again and again a renewed collective composition exclusive to each moment. The silhouettes of this sound sculpture will blend with those of our visitors and become one.

Like a cenote which is home to the purest water in the middle of the jungle, Nostalgia holds what the heart of the water might sound like in eternal movement and ever transforming itself and all around it. Think about a body of water inside an ancient crater, cuddled by the shadows of primary jungle trees and vegetation canopy, appearing nestled as a pure source of life, pierced by mere threads of light like a pristine mirror of the cosmic maps and endless. It seems to be still and endless, but it’s not, there’s a constant evolution and interactive process of renewal, courrents, movement and sound. It’s connected to violent storms, waterfalls, the ocean, and humankind must urgently realize this might become a memory soon, unattainable.

Water is that almost incomprehensible paradygm between life and death.  This acoustic installation might very well be seen as  a true remembrance of the pleasure that the sound of water in the wild produces.  What would it feel like to be blended with it? What if we were able to partake in its everflowing and transforming cycles, I guess all our senses might be stimulated and tuned with it. The rescuing of everything that has to do with keeping water free and running at its own pace through the rocks, vegetation, creatures and atmosphere might very well be our most important objective as humanity. This is the concept in the center of Nostalgia, a collective effort inviting all to partake.

Cecilia Santamarina

Curator