Galerie Barbara Thumm

\María José ArjonaSEDIMENTS:
Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements
SEDIMENTOS:
Sintonizaciones Sono-Coreo-Geo-Gráficas
05.07. - 02.08.2025

María José Arjona, *1973 in Bogotá, Colombia
lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia

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Exhibition views © Jens Ziehe

María José Arjona’s exhibition presents an ongoing interdisciplinary project that the artist has been developing since 2022. Bringing together video works, sound compositions, drawings, scores, photographs, and a manuscript, the project investigates the politics of memory, movement, and coexistence. The variety in the media expression of the individual components of the presentation reflects Arjona’s artistic practice, which, as a performance artist, engages spaces of resonance and movement across multiple, simultaneous formal languages.

How can movement be translated into text? What connects the act of capturing water in an image with the composition of sound? And what new relations emerge when fragments of a natural observation encounter a choreographic score?

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Exhibition Views

Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona – SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona – SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona – SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona – SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona – SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona – SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona – SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements

Videos

María José Arjona

River 2 / Rio 2 (2025)
Duration: 10:54:10min
Dimensions: 1920 X 1080
Audio: Stereo
1/5 + 2 AP

María José Arjona

River 3 / Rio 3 (2025)
Duration: 11:09:45min
Dimensions: 1920 X 1080
Audio: Stereo
1/5 + 2 AP

María José Arjona

River 4 / Rio 4 (2025)
Duration: 7:58min
Dimensions: 1920 X 1080
Audio: Stereo
1/5 + 2 AP

María José Arjona

River 6 / Rio 6 (2025)
Duration: 4:20min
Dimensions: 1920 X 1080
Audio: Stereo
1/5 + 2 AP

María José Arjona

River 1 / Rio 1 (2025)
Duration: 10:07min
Dimensions: 1920 X 1080
Audio: Stereo
1/5 + 2 AP

María José Arjona

River 5 / Rio 5 (2025)
Duration: 9:40:52min
Dimensions: 1920 X 1080
Audio: Stereo
1/5 + 2 AP

María José Arjona

River 7 / Rio 7 (2025)
Duration: 9:08min
Dimensions: 1920 X 1080
Audio: Stereo
1/5 + 2 AP

Photography

Highlights
Editions
Photography
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona – SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements \ All Possible Forests #1 (2022)

María José Arjona

All Possible Forests #1 (2022)
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Paper 308
70 x 100 cm | 27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in
unframed
1/3 + 2 AP
Galerie Barbara Thumm \ María José Arjona – SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements \ All Possible Forests #4 (2022)

María José Arjona

All Possible Forests #4 (2022)
Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308
110 x 165 cm | 43 1/4 x 65 in
unframed
1/3 + 2 AP