With ‘Noise above our heads’, artist Clàudia Larcher stages natural rock formations and fragments of architecture transformed into each other, as if emerging together on a dystopian stage. The architectural spaces mounted on the rocks recall Bruno Taut’s sketches of alpine architectural visions. The “noise above our heads” evokes the image of a threatening danger; the downward movement of the camera, a vertical panorama, suggests a falling motion that disturbs the viewer. The threat itself cannot be located, the fall never culminates in a collision. The tension is not released, the threat has become permanent. Allegorically speaking, the work explores the issue of hidden and inaccessible data centers for the public, server spaces resembling bunkers that store billions of bytes of information.
Larcher’s work explores video animation, collage, photography, and installation with a particular cinematic approach to storytelling and the ability to extract narratives from seemingly indescribable everyday spaces. Based in Vienna, she has presented her work in numerous exhibitions in Austria and abroad, such as Tokyo Wonder Site (Japan), Slought Foundation Philadelphia, Weimar Art Festival, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Manifesta 13, and Anthology Film Archives (New York).
Throughout 2024, the ‘outdoor hall’ of Lo Pati will host ‘Antroposcenes, narratives about life in the Anthropocene’, a cycle curated by Pau Waelder with six artistic proposals. Waelder has selected the work of six artists reflecting on life in the Anthropocene, a concept referring to the geological period to define the times marked by the decisive influence of human activity on our planet. The artists participating in this selection have created audiovisual works that offer us, from different perspectives, scenes of life in the Anthropocene, particularly from those environments and systems that we ignore but have a determining role in life on Earth.
