Resonant Fermentation Assemblages

 

curated by Mundos Invisibles

Hypha Studios South Bank / Gallery 3, 42 Southwark Bridge Rd, London, SE1 9EU

PV: Thursday, 25th June 2026, 6 – 9pm
Open: 26th June – 26th July 2026

Mundos Invisibles: A Resonant Fermentation Assemblages is conceived as a research-creation laboratory where water, in its multiple states, acts as a co-author engaging its mnemonic capacities across atmospheric and liquid states that shape a device for deep listening to the living. We co-create with its invisible presence in atmospheres and mists that travel through “flying rivers” and later integrate into the diverse flows that sustain life. These journeys, usually imperceptible, become sensorial through devices that intercept fog and dew, making the aerial circulation of water audible and tangible. In its liquid state, water becomes both setting and nourishment for the creation of resonant biomaterialities in collaboration with bacteria and yeast. Thus, the installation does not represent water: it is composed of water itself, allowing itself to be affected by its rhythms, densities, and drifts.

Positioned within discussions of water as witness, archive, and temporal medium, Mundos Invisibles proposes a deep listening installation that attends to its rhythms, densities, and transformations across states. It activates water’s capacity to hold and generate memory through multispecies collaboration, situating remembrance as a process of ongoing material entanglement.

The work unfolds through interconnected gestures. Air is understood as a living membrane, where condensation devices intercept dew from atmospheric moisture. This humidity nourishes biofabricated “speaker-membranes”: translucent sheets of bacterial cellulose grown through kombucha fermentation. Embedded with copper coils and activated electromagnetically, these membranes act as living loudspeakers that transduce sound into vibration. Ultrasound transducers atomize water into fine mist, returning it to the air and closing the cycle between sky and soil: to be alive is to vibrate.

Artists

Antonia Valencia
Felipe Macia
Giovanni Randazzo
Leonel Vásquez
Natalía Matías
Claudia Medina
Marcela Cely-Santos

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