The starting point of the installation Vol.7 n.17 007 | 30’07” |121169_tape loop_7’13”_fragments of Lepanto_part I is the record collection of the artist’s Portuguese family, which reflect the migration of the artist’s family across three continents. The first records were purchased in Angola in the 1960s, after war broke out in the former Portuguese colony, and the collection was expanded with vinyl from Portugal and Canada until the 1980s. The records are scratched and their covers are moth-eaten, indicating the passage of time. As a whole, the family archives become a fragmentary map of displacement and a witness to the complexity of Portugal’s contemporary history.
The multi-record sound piece created from the archive material resonates in a 3D-printed chamber, the fragment of the Lepanto wreck , a former Dutch vessel wrecked on the Angolan coast. Beside the archival sound material, the artist also incorporated an organ sound piece made for the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam and overlapped the sculpture with a projection of 3D reconstructions of beached vessels, echoing the ghostly colonial history of the Oude Kerk
Vol.7 n.17 007 | 30'07” |121169_tape loop_7'13”_fragments of Lepanto_part I , sound installation and organ concert, 2021, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam part of the Production|Collection Fund for the Hartwig art Foundation
The Hartwig Art Production | Collection Fund was established in 2020 and is part of the Hartwig Art Foundation. The fund stimulates experiments and creativity at the highest level. Every year, the fund supports a group of artists in creating new and ambitious work. The artworks are ultimately purchased by the Hartwig Art Foundation and donated to the Collectie Nederland. In this way, the fund makes a lasting social contribution. For the Special Project 2020-2021, collaborations have been entered into with presentation institutions in the Netherlands. In addition to Oude Kerk, presentations by a total of 15 artists can be seen at Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam), Stroom Den Haag, Vleeshal (Middelburg) and Casco Art Institute (Utrecht).
