Artists
United States of America
Lis Sundberg
What does solidarity sound like to you?
20.05.24 14.06.24
Lis Sundberg is a young artist who currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota. Raised as a Quaker, Lis learned about social justice during middle and high school through involvement with the regional Florida Quaker youth group. As faith allies to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworker-led group advocating for fair wages and dignity for farmworkers in the tomato fields of Southwest FL, she gained valuable insights. Participating in protests and witnessing the power of collective voice through chanting, call-and-response, and singing has been a significant inspiration, particularly in her recent practice of participatory artworks.
Lis came to ´ace in her first presential residency after having completed her participation in our online program Together Apart. During her time in the studio, Lis explored different local materials to produce sound objects and musical instruments for the public to experiment with during the ´aceNITE with which her residency period ended.
ARTIST STATEMENT
What does solidarity sound like to you? This is the question I’ve been asking recently, which perfectly sums up my current interests and artistic practice. I’ve been thinking about sound, how sound can be culturally specific, invoke memory, and universal. The art created through the addressal of these thoughts and question will arise through collaboration. Through a sharing of specific and all-encompassing perceptions and interpretations of sound, I am interested in the binaries between sound and noise, natural and human-made, listening and hearing, calling and responding and the in-betweens that these binaries create.
BIO
Lis Sundberg
2000 | USA
Lives and works in St. Paul, USA
EDUCATION
2022 | BA in Human Rights and Studio Arts. Bard College, USA
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2022 | Food Justice in Appalachia. WVU Library, USA
2022 | Re-Rooting/Re-Routing. Bard College, USA
2022 | Davis Peace Prize, USA
2021 | West Virginia Department of Art and Culture Grant, USA
Related Activities
´aceNITE
City Pulse
Artists in dialogue
12.06.24 12.06.24
To close the May-June residency period, we presented the work of our residents at the ´ace studio. This exhibition brought together five artists (two working as a collective and one artist invited as part of the exhibition programme Semillero 2023) who, through their work, explored the tensions and complexities of our contemporary existence, who have immersed themselves in the pulse of the city, drawing from its urban landscape, its waste, and its sounds, materials and inspirations for their work.
Thomas Macie (USA) invites us to see the beauty in the discarded and the broken. Through his process of collecting waste and torn posters from the streets of Buenos Aires, he challenges the aesthetic value of what we consider useless. His work confronts us with our own craving for consumption and the transience of the satisfaction we seek in the material. He questions whether it is possible to find solace in what is abandoned, transforming rubbish into a mirror of our insatiable desires.
Through their piece ciclos, the collective formed by Sofía Fernández Díaz and Sofía Gabriel (Mexico-USA) creates a live performance that connects the public with the flow of improvisation and ancestral traditions. Using natural materials and handmade tools, their work is a celebration of femininity, life and change. The gestures and materials, from Grana Cochinilla to rusted metals, form an ode to the moon, highlighting the processes and cycles of nature.
María Villanueva (Argentina) uses the metaphor of the human body as a microcosm to explore internal systems and their reflection on the outside. Through ceramics, textiles and paintings, she creates an Atlas of the Body, a cartography that reveals human landscapes and desolate territories. Her work is a practice of healing and reflection, where the hidden becomes visible and the internal is projected outwards.
Lis Sundberg explores sound as a universal language that unites stories, emotions and traditions. Inspired by experiences in Berlin, China and her Quaker roots, her work is an invitation for audience participation to create a collaborative soundscape. In this piece, sound becomes a medium to explore solidarity and interconnectedness, building networks of roots that amplify the stories of all.
In addition, we present to the public the mural by Marian Calle (Argentina), artist in residence Palimpsesto de Pintura Mural thanks to a grant from Fundación´ace.
Together, these works invite the audience to reflect on the interconnectedness of our human experiences, the beauty in the everyday and the discarded, and the constant search for meaning in an ever-changing world. This exhibition is a celebration of the diversity of perspectives and a call to question what we take for granted, opening up space for new ways of seeing and hearing our surroundings.
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