María José Arjona
SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attainments / SEDIMENTOS: Sintonizaciones Sono-Coreo-Geo-Gráficas

5 JUL until 2 AUG 2025

María José Arjona‘s (b. 1973, Bogotá, Colombia) exhibition presents an ongoing interdisciplinary project that the artist has been developing since 2022. Bringing together video works, sound compositions, drawings, scores, photographs, and a manuscript, the project investigates the politics of memory, movement, and coexistence. The variety in the media expression of the individual components of the presentation reflects Arjona’s artistic practice, which, as a performance artist, engages spaces of resonance and movement across multiple, simultaneous formal languages.

The works on view arise from Arjona’s long-term research into water, habitats, and acoustic ecologies across diverse geographical and political contexts. These include rivers such as the Magdalena, Guaviare, Palomino, Amazon, and Cauca in Colombia, the Hudson and Miami Rivers in the United States, and the Spree in Berlin. Her seven-part video composition Rio/River (2025) weaves together moving image studies from these sites with radically abstracted soundscapes. At times, the audio evokes birdsong or other traces of natural life, at others, it shifts toward the deep, reverberating tones of electronic sound. These layered explorations culminate in a body of work that is materially and conceptually fluid, embodying the artist’s interest in the interconnections between bodies, environments, and sonic ecosystems.