Verses of the Cosmos

In the framework of our 10th anniversary celebrations, KOSMICA is organising a series of international activities. The first one is a large scale exhibition about artists working with meteorites.

Verses of the Cosmos

1863. A discovery in the field marks the history of a community in Sinaloa. The universe had thrown a metallic rock weighing about 20 tons on Earth. The settlers called it the ¨El Fierro¨ and today it is known as the Bacubirito Meteorite.

The Verses of the Cosmos (Versos del Cosmos) exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists around this mythical meteorite to explore the mystery and astonishment that we have always had for these visitors from the universe through art. With a careful selection of artworks, the show explores these rocks from various poetic perspectives.

The exhibition invites us to remember that meteorites are more than just rocks: they are encrypted stories from other times and other spaces. They are also a testimony to the origin and fragility of life in our planetary home.

Today, when it is more difficult to access dark skies and the natural world, feeling and rethinking our relationship with these celestial bodies reveals the intimate connection we have with the Cosmos.

Participating artists: Ale de la Puente, Amada Miller, Amor Muñoz, Daniel Llermaly, Diego Liedo, Emilio Chapela, Gilberto Esparza & Marcela Armas

Artworks

METEORO DE BOHR

By Ale de la Puente 

A series of spherical containers of various sizes. Spheres that contain other spheres, spheres that contain elements, which in a suspended state are inert, passive, neutral. Combined, they have the ability to change their environment in a second, and perhaps indefinitely the formation of life.

HOLLOW MOON RINGS LIKE A BELL

By Amada Miller

Hollow Moon Rings Like a Bell investigates NASA's Apollo Missions, in which they placed seismometers on the Moon and discovered "Moon Quakes," a vibration that is felt on the lunar surface when it is struck by a meteorite. Astronauts have described this sensation as "ringing like a bell," with the difference that there is no sound in the vacuum of space. In this artwork, each of the 55 bells represents the natural orchestra of our Moon.

POEMA METEORITO

By Amor Muñoz

A participatory piece in which the public is invited to look at and think about the celestial space to write a poem about it. See poetry as matter, as information particles that generate meteorites. The artwork is made with 3D modelling software in which an algorithm processes the poems by means of textual analysis rules that translate certain parameters into numerical values that generate points, voids, concave and convex surfaces in a given space, configuring rocky geometries.

GEA

By Emilio Chapela

This installation is made up of different objects of varied sizes, weights and materials that are associated with the stars. Objects are configured so that they constellate in a microuniverse around our position on Earth from which we observe the universe and name the meteorites. Imagined from there, the objects exchange force, time, energy and color, seeking to make mythological imagination coincide with astronomical rationality.

SIDERAL

By Marcela Armas & Gilberto Esparza

In collaboration with Daniel Llermaly & Diego Liedo

Sideral seeks to create a sound event that comes from the reading and interpretation of the magnetic field of metallic meteorites, fallen in various parts of the Earth. The electromagnetic waves collected from the surface of meteorites are transformed into sound waves to create sensitive experiences, related to the memory of these celestial bodies.

This work articulates experiences that complement the human approach with these mineral entities, opening spaces for a geological consciousness, and other perspectives of time and the record of events in the matter of the universe. Sidereal proposes a consideration of the links of biological and psychic life with the mineral world.

Credits

Verses of the Cosmos has been curated by the KOSMICA Institute team in Mexico:

Manuel Díaz
Mariana Paredes
Nahum