Ana Paula Santana, Own Voice: una escucha profunda a la voz humana. Activación. 2024
Ana Paula Santana, renders para Own Voice, 2024
Ana Paula Santana, renders para Own Voice, 2024
Ana Paula Santana
(Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, 1985)
Venues
Galería Eloísa JiménezInterdisciplinary artist who works with sound art, experimental music, graphics, ceramics, video and installation. She leverages error, repetition, disruption and hoarding as creative tools at the same time she evinces particular interest in the physical and psychological effects sound has on humans. She often works with the written word and her projects are generally presented in printed form. She uses the pseudonym Ana Fauna for music productions and live performances. In 2022 she was a sound artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska, and her work has been exhibited in spaces such as Ex Teresa Arte Actual, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, the Museo de Arte de Zapopan and Mexico City’s Museo del Chopo, among others. She received a Jóvenes Creadores grant from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, as well as from the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico, and also received a Creadores de la Paz grant for her project Resiliencia. Santana is founder and director at O.Y.E. Oficio y Experimentación, a space for experimental arts promotion in Zapopan, Jalisco.
Own Voice: una escucha profunda a la voz humana, 2024
Condenser microphones, headphones, mixer, Touch Board, conductive ink, vinyl, wiring, table, and chairs
Although we use our voice every day, we are not so familiar with it that we can describe it precisely. In an exercise in listening and corporality based on long-term research, Santana invites us to reflect on the perception of our voice through an interview we can access through a closed circuit.
Cada iteración, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
This graphic composition performs twelve frequency analyses of the artist’s voice. Santana recorded herself saying the phrase “cada iteración” (“each iteration”) during different days, times, and contexts. The piece considers the impossibility of saying the same thing in the same way, since our voice is conditioned by the most subtle factors, such as the presence of light and ambient noise or the time and day.
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