IN TRANSITION

In Transition (2024) exposes the process of personal metamorphosis towards another vital stage. This piece symbolizes the rebirth that arises from the ashes, the passage to a new configuration of the being. From an arduous, difficult process, I go through different stages and, eventually, I find myself again and another woman, which is also me and now constitutes me. The topic stems from a disconnection originating in the individual and the collective; in its own way, it confronts the imposition of biological time (as already happened in Parto). Accepting, or understanding, the radical and painful change of the body entails a destructive process of the past in order to turn it into something new. It is the metaphor of a pain that brings an unprecedented condition. I recover the ancestral language of whistling to express myself with greater accuracy and depth, I dialogue with something unnamed, and that defines me. The inner light can be an iteration of the vitality, the acceptance, and the change we foresee and do not know. The matter that covers my body preserves impressions of that experience. I have come out stronger; my energy is now more diaphanous. «Sol de la naturaleza, llama» (Nature's sun, calls). Like other chapters of my work, In Transition delves into the transitory stages of the being.
It pays homage to indigenous wisdom through a multimedia installation featuring an illuminated resin sculpture evoking the soul, seemingly born from black sand that suggests the volcanic ash of La Palma Island.
Emireth Herrera. Curator & writer
The body responds to the sound, which incorporates poetic melodies anchored in rhythmic drums and chácaras from La Gomera, resonating with the Silbo Gomero, an ancestral language from the island used to communicate across the mountains, alongside the artist’s voice.

CREDITS

Text and voice: Yapci Ramos

Silbo Gomero: Kiko Correa y Yapci Ramos

Chácaras & Drum: Kiko Correa

Recording studio: Casa de la Juventud San Sebastián de La Gomera 

Recording technician: Aday García

Sound mixing and mastering: Damien Bazin

Creative coding: Ventura López

Life-Casting: Catalina Sartor

Video & Editing: Adolf Alcañiz

Logiscal support: EGM

Acknowledgments. Agrispina, Kiko Correa, Adelma Méndez, D. Isidro Ortiz, Ernesto Pelaez, Lito Vera.

Adolf Alcañiz, Joaquim Canal (EGM), Alejandro García Schnetzer, Miguel García, Marcos Lozano (Gold Street Tatto), Katty Trujillo, To all the women who have accompanied me through the process of expulsion and release.

DATA SHEET

Sound installation with resin body and audio-reactive light on sand.

Dimensions: Variable.

Duration: 5´22´´

PRESENTED AT

Instituto Cervantes New York, 2024-2025

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Process

Inspiration