The void can take many forms. This installation rehearses ways of shaping it. It begins with the text and continues through space, hearing and the gaze.

A woman drives a car. The camera shows the image from the windscreen. She stares at it while holding the steering wheel. A landscape is visible in the rear window. The countryside is flat under an overcast sky. Trees and the outline of mountains can be seen in the distance. Suddenly lightning flashes and strikes the road behind her. She hears the thunder and looks back, but the lightning is no longer there. She looks back at the road and continues driving. There is another flash and the sky thunders again. He turns his head again, but doesn't see it. Another bolt of lightning strikes and he turns his head even faster but the lightning is no longer there.

2023

Sound collaboration: Jota Cassone
Sound technician: Joan Cabré Miret
Systems production: Carlos Carbonell
Text design: Valentina Alvarado Matos
Textual editing: Marta van Tartwijk

Sofía Montenegro (Madrid, 1988) develops her work between sound, image, text, mediation and performance. She studied Fine Arts and Cultural Studies between Utrecht and Madrid, and an MA in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute. She is currently resident at Hangar.

She has shown her work in exhibitions, actions and performances at Can Felipa Arts Visuals (Barcelona), Bulegoa (Bilbao), MNCARS, LCE, El Chico (Madrid), Kunstraum Bethanien (Berlin), Bosque R.E.A.L., Ekkisens (Reykjavik), Laboral Centro de Arte (Gijón), Sala de Arte Joven (Madrid), W139 (Amsterdam), Ron Mandos Galerie (Amsterdam), and Teatro Pradillo, among others.

Recently, he has been a resident at Futurama Alentejo, BilbaoArte, CRA Matadero Madrid, and the Artists In Residence programme. She has also collaborated in projects and residencies at the Caixa Forum in Barcelona, Lugar a Dudas (Cali), Tbilisi Triennial and the Kunstverein Munich.

She was awarded in Generacion 2022 and has been selected for the Premi Miquel Casablancas 2023. She also won the Jan Zumbrink Prijs and the Piet Bakker Prijs in the Netherlands.