From 26 de March 2026
Artista: Gemma Luz Bosch
The core of the exhibition is an ongoing archive that compiles sound and visual recordings of clays from various Colombian regions. The aim of this archive is not to classify, but rather to unfold a sensory space where we can experience the diversity of the ground below us through our ears.
In conversation with this archive, the exhibition displays ceramic jars and pots that function as acoustical resonators, some of which can be heard directly and others through loudspeakers. The motion of water inside these resonators amplifies the whispering clay. An accompanying documentary explains how the project developed, and an assortment of clay fragments is in view in the gallery space, allowing the public to engage directly with this material during guided visits with Museum staff.
Gemma Luz Bosch is a sound artist, composer, performer, and creator of instruments, currently based in the Netherlands. Her practice centers on sound understood as movement: a vibration puts the air in motion and this motion is completed by listening. From this perspective, she composes and shapes soundscapes using instruments and installations of her own design.
Driven by her passion for music, Bosch enrolled in the Musician 3.0 program at the Utrecht Conservatorium, which focuses on experimentation with sound. There, she conceived her first ceramic instruments. Hoping to inquire further into the physics of sound, she enrolled at the Master ArtScience program at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, from which she graduated in 2024.
Bosch has presented her work in different festivals and exhibitions in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and Norway, including the Rewire festival, the Madrid-Lisbon Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Into the Great Wide Open, Art Museum Heidenheim, Gaudeamus Festival, Speelklok Museum, Bimhuis, Tivoli, and Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, among others.
Clay Breath is her first project undertaken outside Europe.
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