CURVATURA. Laura Llaneli
A curvature is a deviation from the straight line. A gentle, almost imperceptible deviation that compels us to pay attention in a different way. The title of this exhibition refers simultaneously to a physical gesture and to a way of moving through the world — or of listening to it.
The exhibition brings together works that move toward what remains outside the center: echoes, reverberations, and remnants. Through constant attention to deviations and overflows within systems of organization, a tension emerges between the desire to standardize sound and the existence of something that always remains adrift.
For more than a decade, Laura Llaneli has worked with sound as a liminal object of study. She is interested in what occurs just before something sounds, or after it has stopped sounding. The whisper, silence, minimal vibration, background noise, the frequencies that go unnoticed within societies saturated with stimuli. Her work approaches the infraordinary — those seemingly insignificant things that, when listened to attentively, completely transform the experience of space and time.
The works presented belong to different moments in her practice, yet they all share the same concern. They compel us to refine our listening. Audio appears as a trace; it could be a compressed memory or even a secret, manifesting itself as both physical and emotional resonance. Sometimes it is not perceived directly; at times it can only be imagined, while at others it remains as a trapped frequency.
The exhibition proposes not only listening to the works themselves, but also to what surrounds them — to feel as well what exists within us: silenced noise, the distant echo in the background. Through text, objects, and absence, Llaneli invokes an idea of containment, referring to sound without needing to produce it. She also reflects on what it means to create more noise in a present already overwhelmed by excess. Like a curve, the works invite us to divert perception. CURVATURA proposes inhabiting this deviation. Listening to what barely vibrates, to what still remains.
