In a time when climate change and environmental destruction threaten our world, this exhibition turns to art to explore a powerful philosophy: ecofeminism. It is a meeting place between mythology, modern activism, and art. The five artists in the exhibition have drawn inspiration from ecofeminist ideas in different ways. The works take us on a visual journey that allows us to reflect on our relationship with the Earth and with one another. In this exhibition, you will find two pieces from the Visual Instruments series, musical sculptures by Glenda León, among other works.

In Glenda León’s visual instruments or musical sculptures, components of musical instruments (guitar, violin or harpsichord strings, tuning pegs and drums) are used to represent shapes coming from nature (the rain, the sea, the light, the stars, the moon phases), a phrase or as an extension of a natural element (a feather, a butterfly wing). These are sound works which can be activated by the spectator or by a musician, whose action becomes symbolic: we will be listening or touching/playing the rain, the stars, the light. A metaphor of listening to nature that is so urgent in these times. This notion of true listening underlies in much of the artist’s body of work and it is expressed in this kind of pieces through the relationship between form, sound and interactivity. In Listening to Silence (2012), the first of this group, the artist invites us to empty ourselves of thought and ego, leave behind our inner noise (desires, preoccupations, fears, frustrations), as a deeper way to approach and understand the other, the world, ourselves.