Intempo(r)al
Matías Homar

To conclude his residency at ´ace, made possible thanks to an agreement between Fundación´ace and the Institute of Electronic Arts at Alfred University (NY, USA), US-based Argentine artist Matías Homar staged a sound performance in the Espacio Diálogo at the ´ace studio. This sound performance used the speakers that the artist developed at the IEA and brought to Buenos Aires during his residency. The result was a site-specific sound installation of variable dimensions constructed with extruded polystyrene (XPS) insulation boards, sublimated and laser-cut, together with harmonic exciters with electronic amplifiers. In addition, Matías exhibited some printmaking pieces in the Transversal Space of the ´ace studio, integrating his visual imagery with the artist’s sound and installation proposals.

In the artist’s own words: Intempo(r)al is a sound installation that explores the visual as a source of sound. Through impressions on resonant surfaces activated by electronic exciters, the work articulates soundscapes that fluctuate according to the light of the environment, transforming the viewer’s spatial perception. Four of the pieces reproduce, in a loop, processed sounds intertwined with texts by Rodolfo Walsh, while the rest incorporate sound materials from guitar and voice. Distributed at different points in the space, the image-emitters construct a sound and visual fabric that invites the viewer to inhabit listening, memory, and resonance in a suspended time.