'Remor renou', by Laura Llaneli

Laura Llaneli works in the fields of sound and language, individually and collectively. Her artwork focuses on the impact of variations on stable patterns and structures in certain cultural products, testing the resistance of language as a code, or sound as a social icon. In her latest projects, she has used language to refer to sound without producing or reproducing it, multiplying the sound experience through life experience and alluding to what she calls an “internal sound archive”. 

By listening to the environment, Llaneli invites us to rethink sound within the societies we inhabit and to rethink what we understand by ‘noise’. Every place has its own sound identity and in cities this is transformed at breakneck speed, modifying and raising the volume. Nowadays, the accumulation of sound layers has given rise to noisy cities in which information is diluted and standardised, making them all similar. In this increasingly noisy and homogeneous urban context, works are just another source of noise or, as the artist would say, a composition of different sounds that are added to a pre-existing base. But are all works the same in terms of sound? And if we define them? Can we transform the sounds that bother us? 

For Uncomfortable, the artist proposes the installation of canvases in the area around the Art Centre. Canvases with text where we can read the sound produced by the works, in other words, sound that is, at the same time, silent. Without onomatopoeia, rather with certain poetics, Llaneli bestows it with literature, as if it were a Barthesian myth.

When the artist took piano lessons, she remembers that when she played a certain key, a neon light in the classroom would flicker. Her teacher never took any notice of it and it wasn’t until later, at university, that she discovered that this had a name. So, she began to explore the interconnections that take sound beyond itself, from sympathetic resonance to deep listening. In this expansive vision of sound, Llaneli explores the sonic (re)creation capacity of memory. To amplify and reverberate this projection of memory, we have invited the artist to carry out a process of collective creation with a group of students from the Sant Andreu Municipal School of Music, the future inhabitants of the spaces vacated by the Art Centre. Reversing the initial gesture of listening to and describing the sound of the works in a text, together they will work on this text and the idea of noise to interpret it with ‘conventional’ musical instruments. The phrases on the canvas will become an initial music score, like the architect's plans, they are the starting point of a work. However, just like building work, you know when it starts but never when it ends, the result of the process is initially not finalised and still has no end date. Stay tuned!

With the collaboration of  Escola Municipal de Música de Sant Andreu, Escola Vapor del Fil and the neighbourhood community of Sant Andreu.​

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Laura Llaneli (Granada, 1986) studied music and has a diploma in Graphic Design. She graduated in Fine Arts and has a master's in Sound Art from Universitat de Barcelona. She is represented by the ADN Galeria (Barcelona) and among the many awards she has won are the Art for Change Prize 2019, Miquel Casablancas Award 2018, Premi Embarrat 2017 and Barcelona Producció 2014. She has held solo exhibitions at Casal Solleric, ADN Galeria, Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona, Casaplan (Valparaíso, Chile), Swinton & Grant and art3 (Valence, France). She has also performed at festivals including Signal reloaded, Intermediale, Mixtur, Poesia i +, CAAMSonora, LEM, Tsonami IX (Chile) and Eufònic.

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