Electrosmog is a multi-channel video installation that intentionally ignores the intelligibility of communication and which has been created from recordings of radio waves that cross the ground zone of the recent social explosion in Santiago in Chile. Gabriel Lecup’s proposal explores the relationship between power and information produced under political repression against a spontaneous social movement that is still searching for answers. Using cheap and pirated digital television synthesisers, he accessed an infinite electro-magnetic spectrum. Cascades of vibrant pixels, sequential iterated and hypnotic colour fields. He also questions the exponential 10(18)-fold rise in anthropogenic electro-magnetic fields over the last few years. A bombardment almost without respite: mobile phones, routers, computers, servers, video-surveillance, fire fighters, police, ambulances; air, maritime and submaritime civilian, military, fisher, commercial, hate traffic; radio broadcasts and radio hams, digital television, satellite communication, GPS, weather, space exploration; electricity counters, digital thermostats, smart objects, and a long list of sound and rage.

Gabriel Lecup is a sound and visual artist born in Nepal. He studied in sound techniques (Les Arènes, 2003) and Philosophy (Le Mirail, 2005) in Toulouse. He now resides in Barcelona, where his work investigates individual and collective identity construction mechanisms based on sound experiments and technological deviations. His installations, performances  and videos have been shown in Spain, Belgium, Korea, Mexico and England. He is a recipient of Estruch Sabadell, Hangar Barcelona, ​​London Trinity Laban and Brussels La Maison de la Création scholarships and residencies. He is a co-founder of the immersive projection systems company, Broomx Technologies, the winner of the 2018 Sónar+D. He has also carried out R&D, development, training and advice for numerous art and technology projects and has provided his creativity, such as in video hockey, to Barcelona’s most iconic clubs.