Rebeca Malcon

Built space is to the community what the body is to the individual: an object of diagnosis. The city is a living organism in the sense that it is an organised geography of bodies, affections and identities that translate into the great -material/virtual- metropolises of our time. Madrid File: Urbanorespiratory Compositions explores the concept of “pollution” as discarded material, emphasising the materiality of those agents that go unnoticed yet nevertheless intervene in the vital process of our urban body. This project observes the air of Madrid as discarded and at the same time primordial material, in the construction of a caring environmental relationship with the territory. Using artistic methodologies rooted in disciplines such as drifting, happenings or generative art, this investigation sets out to map, measure and musically synthesise the respiratory process of our city. The value of the sound production lies in the artist’s use of invisible material as a resource for artistic expression, as well as its significant ubiquity in the urban experience.

BIO
In her work, Rebeca Malcon (Madrid, 1998) reflects on the corporeal, a concept that extends from performance art practices and sensory exploration to the study of the spatial organisms that we inhabit and coexist with through wearable devices, sound art and the new media format. Her early work explored the concept of corporeality from an intimate and personal point of view. Today, these observations continue to evolve, understanding corporeality/spatiality as a place of exchange, negotiation and social and identitarian construction. Her most recent research explores the acceleracionist geographical context of the urban body, specifically experiences influenced by factors of uninhabitability such as isolation, anxiety or speed.

WEB DEL ARTISTA

One of the recipients of the 2024 Quarterly Residencies for Projects on the Environment for visual artists at Matadero Madrid’s Centre for Artists in Residence.