Laura Llaneli. Llindar lleu. Curated by Rosa Lleó”

“Umbral leve” is an exhibition meant to be listened to. But what are the guidelines, the predispositions, the places where we should focus our attention?

Let us activate our listening voluntarily. In the space, the almost imperceptible will emerge — the whisper, the reverberation, or the silence. What emotional effects do they produce in us?

As we walk through the exhibition, another kind of sound will appear — the one through which we read the works — a sound that comes from imagination, from memory, from a concept, from something forgotten. It may be the background noise, the silenced murmur, or a cry once heard.

Let us listen to the vibration that interconnects us. How do bodies and objects sound? Is there a frequency common to all things?

Drawing from the work of thinkers such as Pauline Oliveros and Laurie Anderson, Laura Llaneli’s pieces invite us to attentive listening — to exercise this sense throughout the exhibition as a whole and within each individual work selectively, in order to also reflect on their conceptual and political implications.

Our relationship with the world is primarily visual — especially within the urban Western context. Traditionally, contemporary art, displayed in more or less white cubes, incorporates sound somewhat reluctantly, often treating it as accompaniment or mere temporary “activation.”

With works created over more than a decade of exploration along these lines, the exhibition proposes — individually and collectively — to deepen our listening, to grasp the richness and nuances of sound as a poetic and artistic field. A divergence from noise and the relentless tyranny of an oversaturated visual world.