Galerie Barbara Thumm hosts Mariá José Arjona’s ongoing project SEDIMENTS, presented as a living archive active since 2022. The installation blends text, manuscripts, video, photography, drawings and scores to render research and practice visible. Performance functions centrally to animate static materials and to translate movement rather than capture it. Water operates as both instrument and medium, producing audible natural soundscapes that connect environments and preserve histories. The work weaves together experiences from the Amazon, New York, and a Berlin fellowship, mobilizing viewers into dialogue and attunement with bodies, place, and sonic ecologies.
SEDIMENTS comprises text, manuscripts, video, photography, drawings and scores. Even though on the surface it feels distant from it, performance takes up a central role in this body of work that brings to life static forms. Within this space, the artist mobilizes the viewer and creates a dialog that explores movement: the aim is not necessarily to capture or control movement but to translate it. She does so by using water as an instrument that interacts with bodies and environments.
Galerie Barbara Thumm is somewhat hidden within a miniature industrial estate. For a moment, I think I have accidentally stepped into a secret laboratory. Sheets of paper cover the walls and I catch glimpses of screens and manuscripts that initially mean nothing to me. Mariá José Arjona's exhibition, 'SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements' recently came not to a close, but the project is only on pause. It may be described as a living archive that has existed since 2022.
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