During her visit to Mértola, in an artistic residency invited by Futurama, the sound work process of the Spanish artist Sofía Montenegro has as its starting point the observation of the Guadiana river.
In this artistic residency the artist will condense notions and processes that she has carried out in recent years in artistic exercises and sound tours. In them, she has deepened issues related to the speculative power of imagination through listening, always in search of a magical or fictional aspect of reality.
Initially, this project arose from an interest in sound and scenic practices used in cinema and theater. Since then, Sofía Montenegro has been testing different methodologies to approach the cinematographic from the auditory.
The artistic residency will have two public presentations on January 16, at 2:30 pm and 4 pm, at the Cine-Teatro Municipal de Mértola.
Biography
Sofía Montenegro (Madrid, 1988) lives and works in Barcelona. In her artistic practice, she incorporates several methodologies that link the sound with the visual and the scenic. She studied Fine Arts and Cultural Studies between Utrecht and Madrid, and holds a Masters in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute (2019).
Sofia Montenegro is one of the awarded artists at "Generación 2022", and was one of the 2020 residents of the performance program of MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid).
She has presented her work in exhibitions and activities at institutions such as La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), El Chico (Madrid), Hangar (Barcelona), La Escocesa (Barcelona), la Universidad Popular do CA2M, Hablar en Arte (Madrid), Dutch Art Institute, Teatro Pradillo (Madrid), Bosque R.E.A.L., Ekkisens Art Space (Reykjavik), Laboral Centro de Arte (Gijón), Sala de Arte Joven (Madrid), W139 (Amsterdam), What Remains Gallery ( Munich), Ron Mandos Galerie (Amsterdam), Kunstpodium T (Tilburg), among others. She has collaborated on projects and residencies at Addaya Center d’Art Contemporani (Mallorca), Lugar a Dudas (Cali), Tbilisi Triennial and at the Kunstverein in Munich.
In 2020, Sofía Montenegro received support for the creation of the Comunidad de Madrid and the Generalitat de Catalunya. She was also selected for the INJUVE grants (2017), and the Plastic Arts Circuits (2013 and 2016). She was also a winner of the Jan Zumbrink Prize and the Piet Bakker Prijs Prize in the Netherlands.
