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He’s talking to me about this rock ten kilometers in diameter. It comes from some unknown location, it’s been hurtling through the cosmos for an undetermined time. He explains to me why the object is likely to have travelled along a continuous, straight trajectory, at a constant speed, and encountering no other object on its path through the void. Then, the Earth’s atmosphere. Three and a half seconds later, the asteroid crashes into the surface destroying 76% of all living things. He is not present at the moment of the collision, but he’s become obsessed with the event. He wants to find residues that will let him recreate the sound it makes. He seems to believe that the impact created an entire system of tunnels. The stone, like a bullet that has never been removed from the flesh, remains lodged within it. He begins by gathering together a group of explorers to investigate deep underground. They descend, swallowed up for several days in silence and darkness. Their pupils dilate to the rims of their eyes. The sensitivity of their video camera, deep down. Their entrails howling inwards, outwards. The high-pitched noise they are listening to in the silence is the electronics of the brain. When there is nothing left to perceive, the preamps in their bodies and their recording apparatus listen to themselves. Their footsteps, their stumbling, their breathing, their words, their intestines, their machines. Noisy animals, humans. The streaming water has brought with it an accumulation of matter. The drops impact like tiny asteroids, always in the same place, craters repeating one after the other. Seeking one of the most intense sounds ever produced on earth, in almost absolute silence. As if one just needs to start listening to one’s own organs to be able to conjure up any sound. Every search for sound begins by listening to the body.
Production : Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains
Born in 1986 in Guadalajara, Mexico, Andrés Padilla Domene studied Media Arts in Mexico. He has exhibited his work in various festivals and exhibitions in Mexico and around the world, including Modern Ruins 1:220 The Arts Catalyst Furtherfield Gallery (London, 2014), ISEA 2012 Main Exhibition (Albuquerque, US, 2012), The Dreams of a Nation, a year later, at the Museo Nacional de Arte MUNAL (Mexico City, 2011), 04 Transitio_MX (Mexico City, 2011), Gym of Obsolete Technology, W139 Gallery (Amsterdam, 2016) Setting out, Apexart (New York, 2016), La Fabrique des Images at Institut Culturel du Mexique (Paris, 2015) and EFRC, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Quito, Ecuador, 2012). Since 2007, he has developed together with Ivan Puig the project SEFT-1 (seft1.net). He is also part of the artist collective Astrovandalistas (astrovandalistas.cc) and currently an artist student at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains.
Vit et travaille entre le Mexique et la France.
CAAV Universidad de Medios Audiovisuales, Mexique
2017 IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Pays Bas 2014 Modern Ruins 1:220, The Arts Catalyst | Furtherfield Gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne 2012 ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Albuquerque, États-Unis 2011 Los sueños de una nación, MUNAL, Musée National d’Art, Mexico, Mexique