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Bas Relief on Circuit Boards
Gonzalo Silva
Territorio sonoro (2025)
3D print, laser engraved FR-4 circuit board, 9½ x 13¾ inches
Created as part of the 2023 Ariel Bybee Endowment Prize in visual art
Instrumentos de silencio is a visual art exhibition exploring music as a way knowledge is stored, passed on, and transformed.
This series of 3-D printed bas reliefs, Territorio sonoro, explores the use of music as a technology for dominance. It connects the architectural designs of the “Musical Angels” friezes in the Trinidad Reduction with inset maps, engraved on computer circuit boards, that depict Spanish Jesuit settlements that took place over Guaraní territories (present-day Paraguay and Argentina).
After unveiling in New York and traveling to Berkeley CA, this work and others will arrive at UMOCA in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 16th.