From Lost to the River
Work developed during the Arteast Residency Programme - B5 Studio (2024)
Curator: Kata Ungvári-Zrínyi
This work-in-progress exhibition is the starting point of a research project on the ways in which the relationship between humans and other bodies of water that has been lost in the city of Târgu Mureș/Marosvásárhely, especially around the Mures/Maros river.
During her residency period at the B5 Studio, Isabel Val Sánchez has expanded her ongoing research on water into the collective, mental and physical space that Târgu-Mureș occupies.
In the exhibition, layers of history are interwoven, and it remains a real question whose story we are witnessing: the exhibition presents the phenomenon of water in all its grandeur, in its alienness as a force of nature, and at the same time as an agent present within/among us that nourishes and supports direct human relationships or community and allows deep understandings.
The non-linear narrative of the works creates a highly experiential space in which visitors can simultaneously discover traces of their own history and the all-pervasive presence of water by calling on time-traveling water and electromagnetic waves. As a metaphor, an open-wave radio receiver, built according to the instructions of the Shortwave Collective, is used to refer to the constant and hidden presence of different phenomena, the forms of knowledge or content around us.
