Also in this image, work by Bruno Ollé and Gonzalo Guzmán

Chrysopoeia

Amplifier, megaphone, scrap metal, sound (20’ loop)

The “scrap man” is a public figure known in industrialised societies all over the world. Though they operate in the mostly invisible economy of waste collection, they are sonically recognisable by a looping and piercing call for metal, which gives the quasi-universal phenomenon a hyperlocal character.

The sculpture functions as an electrical circuit, connecting an amplifier to a megaphone through a chain of copper, aluminum, steel, nickel, brass and iron objects. It amplifies a call for metallic congregation, a whisper which pairs a list of metals with an array of different static signals.

Shown at lo que fue no es pero es, curated by Laberinto Studio at Quarto Location, L’Hospitalet.

Pictures by Ariadna Puigdomenech

2024