A HAUNTED PLACE IN A HAUNTED COUNTRY IN A HAUNTED WORLD

Using sound as a tool to access the unconscious, we attempt to find in experimental narratives where magical thinking becomes a way to make sense of an overwhelming reality. By linking fear and repressed memory, we draw from psychology and history to locate what might function as a collective political subconscious. To narrate “irrational” fears is to expose misunderstood forms of vulnerability- where the past (memory) and the future (speculation) converge into geopolitical scenarios that invite us to question how we confront and position ourselves before the unknown. 

Stephanie Quirola is an Ecuadorian-American artist and educator based in Brussels since 2010. She currently teaches theory in the Ecology Futures program at Avans University. Her work explores cultural hybridization, the notion of borderlands -physical, mental, social- multiple ecologies, symbiotic relationships, and issues of social and cultural marginalization. Quirola’s recent research investigates representations of  female murderers, focusing on how the media and neighbors objectify and totemize them beyond moral judgment.

Luis Campos is a Mexican artist whose practice weaves together sound, sculpture, and two-dimensional media through both analog and digital production processes. His installations unfold as expanded reflections on memory, history, speculation, and translation. Through layered audiovisual compositions -combining synthesizers and sound sculpture- Campos invites viewers to engage imagination as a material and narrative force. 

The artists collaborative interest lies in the dialogue that unfolds the exchange between visual language (plastic) and temporal language (performance), to expand in a crossing of multiple disciplines a more robust and clear body of work, from memory and autofiction to speculation and science fiction, both artists find sound, video and installation as a field of discussion. Interested in popular culture (creepypastas and myths) in connection with what these stories might say of a community’s fears or desires.