Life of the Lifeless gathers the lines of inquiry that have shaped the practice of Colombian sound and intermedia artist Alba Triana. Her work delves
into what she deems essential to the natural world: vibration, energy, interconnectedness, and the creative and self-organizing power of nature. Triana departs from a fundamental observation: at a minuscule scale, nature is movement. Even what we perceive as inert possesses an intrinsic vitality—a web of forces in continuous transformation. This energy, imperceptible yet omnipresent, also manifests in the human sphere through
ideas, emotions, and creative acts—as a continuation of the same forces that originate everything. Working through the languages and tools of art, Triana transforms sensory experience into a form of knowledge. In her pieces, sound, light, and electromagnetism become core materials that reveal the flows and tensions that traverse human experience and its environment. The result is a constellation of vibrational objects, kinetic installations, and resonant spaces that foreground the vibratory essence of the cosmos. Life of the Lifeless unfolds as a multisensory environment to be walked through, listened to, and contemplated across space and time. Through direct experience, Triana invites us to attune to the vitality that inhabits everything, blurring the boundaries between what is alive, human, and inert, proposing a meditation on the essence that constitutes and unites us.
This exhibition presents, for the first time in Spain, the work Harmonic Motion, awarded at the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, Austria.