Gil Delindro
Event
Part of the annual programme of Serralves Park, this exhibition presents two works by the artist Gil Delindro, “Fictional Forest” and “Burned Cork – Resilience”, where the material and cultural conditions that are imposed on the life (and death) of trees and forests are presented as key and symbolic of a complex dialectic between conceptions of the “natural” and the “human”. The exhibition seeks to express the relationship built between the artistic process and science, an opportunity for dialogue on sustainability, featuring poetry. Part of this process is the construction of new identities of the spaces, imagined and/or built of the Park, unique resources that challenge the educational community to activate the response to the environmental emergency.
Gil Delindro (1989, Portugal) is a sound and visual artist with international recognition for his environmental site-specific research, namely on challenging places and landscapes, isolated communities, often subject to extreme geological and climatic conditions, all over the world. Some of these include the Sahara Desert, the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, Siberia, the Rhone Glacier, the Aurvergne Volcanoes or remote villages in Vietnam.
Gil Delindro's artistic practice is based on research that explores connections between ecology, geology, anthropology and acoustics. His pieces translate ephemeral states of organic matter (such as soil and wood), geological debris or water into spatialised soundscapes. These sound sculptures carry within them the unpredictable effects of weather, climate, erosion and external atmospheric conditions, in contrast to fabricated acoustic devices. Delindro dwells on the contemporary tension between humans and a planet with a rapidly changing environment, questioning in what ways the human perception of “Nature” can be challenged.
Gil Delindro (1989, Portugal) is a sound and visual artist with international recognition for his environmental site-specific research, namely on challenging places and landscapes, isolated communities, often subject to extreme geological and climatic conditions, all over the world. Some of these include the Sahara Desert, the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, Siberia, the Rhone Glacier, the Aurvergne Volcanoes or remote villages in Vietnam.
Gil Delindro's artistic practice is based on research that explores connections between ecology, geology, anthropology and acoustics. His pieces translate ephemeral states of organic matter (such as soil and wood), geological debris or water into spatialised soundscapes. These sound sculptures carry within them the unpredictable effects of weather, climate, erosion and external atmospheric conditions, in contrast to fabricated acoustic devices. Delindro dwells on the contemporary tension between humans and a planet with a rapidly changing environment, questioning in what ways the human perception of “Nature” can be challenged.
