echoes
of
hydrogen
bonds
breathe
above
the snow line

Caterina Gobbi

opening with performance
‍had there been anyone to listen

11.2.-11.3.22
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Echoes of hydrogen bonds breathe above the snow line taps into geological rhythms. Spatial and sonic compositions amalgamate sounds sampled and collected from high up in the Mont-Blanc mountain range. Ice breathes and echoes through cooper tubes; the sound of subterranean territories, we hear traces of transformation as waters change in the subsoil.Immersed in a yellow glow, copper wires map the space and reverberations leak through the permeability of walls, ceiling and windows, activating surfaces as they transmit noise waves. Alternative frameworks to explore our relationship with the ecological world unfold. Gobbi is interested in the shifting perspective of being within the ice rather than “over” it, abandoning narratives of human domination of nature. Glaciers are holders of history-vibrant matter with the ability to shift our evaluation of time. What does it mean to think about listening beyond the ice, can we sonically mimic the ability of ice to reshape, shift and reconstruct?

Caterina Gobbi lives and works in the Italian Alps. She is a visual artist, performer and DJ whose research is particularly interested in the relationship, mediated through sound, between human beings and their environment. Combining her interests in ecology, feminism and electronic music production, she creates immersive sonic frameworks that involve participatory acts of listening. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with a Master of Fine Art in 2018. She has exhibited in Italy and abroad at galleries and institutions such as Castello Gamba, Italy; Chalton Gallery, London; Outpost Gallery, Norwich; Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin; Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Karen Huber Gallery, Mexico City; Lily Robert, Paris; KINDL, Berlin


Part of the series Meanwhile in Messy Aporia
Text and curation by Colette Patterson
Kindly funded by the Kulturamt Stadt Leipzig and Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen

Photos Moritz Richter
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