| Arkhè explores the origins and primal forces of creation. This Greek term, meaning both beginning and foundation, weaves a dialogue between materials, forms, and temporalities. Laura Colmenares Guerra uses technology to reveal the invisible memory of ecosystems and forgotten voices.
The most recent, most human techniques can be put to use in the service of the most archaic aspects of nature — those least connected to the modern human, who increasingly retreats into the realm of their own technologies. Through their creative and interactive potential, these techniques are capable of bringing human consciousness closer to that of trees, air, rivers, and animals — elements that often escape our senses — and bridging the gap with Western human awareness and its blind spots. For this awareness sees itself as the sole master of the living world, which it views not as a subject to bond with, but as an object to be appropriated. Hence the unrestrained exploitation and destruction. The artist thus uses photography and sound recording, compositing, and especially 3D imagery and printing. For five years, she dedicated herself to the Amazon and to the excesses that threaten and devastate it. Her deep dive into its topography and the life of one of its Indigenous peoples has been expressed through immersive works. Among other things, she captured sacred songs that call upon trees, rivers, animals, and ancestors, and made them visible by transmitting their sound waves to the ancient water of a 3D ceramic basin. This work will serve as her inspiration this summer in Montauban. Thanks to the world of the latest human techniques, the stream that runs alongside the containers on the second floor might well be heard singing. Originally from Colombia, Laura Colmenares Guerra studied in Bogotá, where she was born, before settling in Brussels. From there, she explores the rupture between the human body and spirit and those of nature. Laura Colmenares Guerra
Centre d'Art Contemporain du Luxembourg belge (CACLB)
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