Opening: Thursday November 13th, 6.30 p.m The exhibitions that make up the BIENALSUR itinerary in Italy, between September and December 2025, outline a conceptual journey that explores the relationship between the human body and the non-human bodies of the world we inhabit: animals, the natural landscape, plant intelligences, and stones as archives of millennia-old time. Guiding the exhibition path is the term "Invocations", taken from the lecture La Cultura y el Alma Animal given by James Hillman in Caracas in 1994, where the psychoanalyst describes invocation as a call to invisible spirits, an offering or propitiation that implies a shift of the human subject from the center of the stage “toward the wings (the sides), in an anti-modern gesture that ignores the ego, the hero, the intentions, and the biography of the person, shifting attention toward the margins”. As part of this journey, the exhibition at the Auditorium in Rome explores artistic research that investigates the boundary between visual and sound language. The works on display suggest the presence of a sound that the observer cannot access, only evoked through images, moving bodies, written words, and rhythmic spectrograms. The title of the exhibition, A Sound Deep in the Ear, suggests an inner and individual sound, perceived only by those who accept the challenge of the synesthetic translation. Trapped in a condition of potentiality, the sound is INvoked by the exhibited works, whose significance lies in the imaginative dimension implicit in the act of translating an absent musicality into images.
Image: Friedrich Andreoni, I Was So Wrong, 2021, SAIC Galleries, Photo: Courtesy of the Artist