Sonia Guggisberg

Sonia Guggisberg at Athens' old airport Nov. 2014

One of her many video installations is called: "Lost sounds"

https://vimeo.com/67067280

When looking seeing and listening to this video, some poetic associations are brought about:

the earth breathes

like a woman

looking up a tree

at the bark

wondering

where are the stars

amidst strange sounds

since they seem to come

counter clock wise

to look back in time

making even Pink Floyd

restless since the moon shine

was not there to focus

on the dark side of the tree

folding growing exploding

to sounds made

by invisibile creatures

and mechanical things

only to be interrupted

by the breathing

of that woman

lying on the ground

to look up the tree

forever in focus

of lost sounds

hatto fischer

Athens 14.11.2014

Sonia Guggisberg:

1-
"Lost Sounds" is a history sound that rebuilt the past of an old incinerator with everything that was incinereted there. Now we have a interesting suspended square and o cultural space in the some area. The conection with the past are the old trees in this square.
Was important as realize the work and see the potence or the power of touching the others, the public....

Lost Sounds was made to keep the memory of this area and rebuild the memories inside the public.
https://vimeo.com/107523034

(Hatto gave me a page about Lost Sounds: http://poieinkaiprattein.org/beyond-images/installations/sonia-guggisberg/)

2-
From the Brazilian Price of Photography: ensays
Mounted with debris from demolition and projection, "Samarina is a video installation that parts from scenes captured in the demolition of sheds that were part of my family history. The scenes focus on the movement of smoke that floats circling through space while the walls come down, it is the demolition of history.

It is worth remembering that every demolition is an end that opens the door for the emergence of new possibilities. They are possibilities such as other buildings and new stories emphasizing the urban / human redesign. The sound was made from sounds of demolition and in the background a child's voice sings songs that were recorded live at this same time. One of the songs is called Samarina.
Samarina
https://vimeo.com/67067280

3-
Urban falls is a vídeo project that gathers a series of falls recorded in demolitions in the urban space. Assembled is an almost single movement, the video shows little by little the fluidizing of the structures. The project has the objective of showing that set, rigid structures also fall. Urban Waterfalls present different falls in demolitions as a metaphor to speak of the dismantling not just of the city but of set structures of the institutional power and thus proposes a critical look at these aspects. Contemporary society experiences a new paradigm change where the reflection shows the softening of rigid structures of power for mobile, interchanging structures. “The truth is that never has so much power been connected to the lack of project. Democracy, which apparently controls its power, appears to be kidnapped by it.”(Boaventura Souza Santos, 2010). Form must be generated that allow the reconfiguration of the new codes but first it is necessary to recover the capacity of amazement. “The first gesture of art, said Deleuze, …is the manufacturing of a frame. A cutout in chaos.” (Boaventura Souza Santos 2010).

Urban Fall, 2012.
https://vimeo.com/51453564
password: soniag13

4-
The noise of the silence : point to a discussion about the human closure inside their own impossibilities.
The immobility's and the mobility inside a contemporary life.
https://vimeo.com/76360945/settings
password : soniag13

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Sonia Guggisberg with Oliver Lerone Schultz in Athens 12.Nov. 2014

For more information about her works: photography, installations, exhibitions in Brazil, go to

www.soniaguggisberg.com.br www.sistemasecos.com www.soniaguggisberg.com.br www.sistemasecos.com.br

Publication of her works, see

OTTICA ART MAGAZINE #6 - LINK (ISSUU)
http://issuu.com/otticaart/docs/ottica_art_magazine___6

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