PHYSICS AND SENSORIAL MATTER IN ALBA TRIANA, AT MAX ESTRELLA
By Álvaro de Benito
Max Estrella Gallery presents The Life of the Nonliving, the first solo exhibition by Alba Triana (Bogotá, Colombia, 1969) at its space. The Colombian artist’s work is the result of a long-standing dedication to exploring the capacities of sound and its physics, transforming her research into creative languages that bring together science, technology, and art to sublimate the invisibility of everyday forces that sustain the symbiosis between life and matter.
The exhibition revisits several of the research lines that have guided Triana’s artistic practice and shaped her corpus, exemplified by works such as her sound installation Harmonic Motion, awarded the Ars Electronica Prize in 2023 and presented here. Based on the premise that everything in nature is in motion, Triana draws on sound, light, and other physical elements to create energies that map out a universe in which the human being expresses itself as part of the whole.
Her language lends itself to this pursuit, combining sculpture, installation, and even performance to make the conceptual perceptible. The decoding of acts of creation, critical thought, and emotion serve as vehicles in the formation of her proposal, transforming the sensorial into knowledge —and vice versa.
Her works reveal the flows and tensions with which the viewer coexists while exploring space and environment, resulting in generative elements and oscillating objects that employ the kinetic to expose the interrelation and perception of nature as something almost conscious. The exhibition stands as a multisensory environment that must be experienced through the senses. Triana invites us to perceive the vastness of sensation itself, dissolving at times the boundary between the organic and the artificial, the living and the inert, to consolidate a whole built around energy.
Alba Triana. The Life of the Nonliving can be visited until January 18, 2026, at Max Estrella Gallery, Santo Tomé 6, Madrid, Spain.
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