Tania Cortés Becerra

[V0LC9.4.493]

[V0LC9.4.493] is a work from the [V0LC9.493] series, a project that explores the nine Ecuadorian volcanoes with documented eruptive activity since 1532. For this edition of the Bienal de Cuenca, the .4 version of the series is presented, materialized through the selection of four volcanoes —Cayambe, Chacana, Cotopaxi and Tungurahua—whose presence and histories anchor the piece within a broader temporal and geological narrative.

[V0LC9.493.4] transforms 493 years of volcanic activity from four Ecuadorian mountains into a choreography of vibrations, light, smoke, and sound. The territory is presented as a living organism where rocks pulsate and lasers inscribe ephemeral patterns. Each rock operates with real seismic data, translated by technology into a “xenolanguage” that connects nature and spectator. The installation turns geological tremor into an active source, shifting the human perspective to reveal telluric and temporal forces. More than representing the landscape, it sensitively reactivates it, proposing a game without rules where knowledge is experienced as energy, surprise, and shared listening.

Curatorship and text: Malgorzata Kazmierczak

audiovisual installation, world premiere at Bienal de Cuenca in Cuenca, Ecuador (October 2025)