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GO.RA
The spoil heap — ejected, compressed rock mass — has formed a synthetic landscape. The quarry, in the process of diffusion, has begun the denudation of its own anatomy. A temporary configuration of energy has formed matter, where sound became a document of creation.
Sound, propagating at a speed of 343 m/s, infiltrates the landscape. Stone functions as a magnetic tape that accumulates an acoustic archive. Stone is an artifact of deep memory that documents sound — the result of the deformation of matter. Sound arises from contact, self-fixes within the geological archive, is absorbed, and becomes part of the system’s physical existence.
Space evolves through deformations and changes of identity. This is not the end of form, but its transition. Space exists in an ontological pause — a state in which identity is not yet defined and form has not yet fixed its own boundaries.
A space for new regimes of interaction. A change in sound emphasizes the tension between memory and a new phase of calm. The biogeochemical mechanism has been activated: swallows have colonized the void, activating annexed processes. The landscape is no longer only an archive — it is once again integrated into a system that produces life.
GO.RA — conceptual, multidisciplinary artist. In my practice, I examine the reactivation of personal and collective experience, the processes through which collective memory and cultural trauma are formed. I work with the deformation and transformation of identity, with rupture and the intrusive interaction between environment and body, and I engage in the analysis and documentation of the spatial archive.