Opening: Thu, 05.06.2025, 7pm

Duration: Fri, 06.06. – Sat, 26.07.2025

Artists: Orla Barry, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Edgar Calel, Tania Candiani, Lorena Mal, Niamh O’Malley, ~pes (Elizabeth Gallón Droste & Pablo Torres)

Guest curator: Lorena Moreno Vera

Nature – a speaking subject? As we know, modern society has shown little interest in this idea. While our natural sciences have been trying to decipher the secret language of nature for centuries, they never really had a “dialogue” in mind. Practices such as talking to animals, singing to mountains, or reading water waves (as musical scores) have only been denigrated as unscientific. But nature is anything but silent – it is extremely eloquent. In many oral cultures, there is not only an awareness for this fact but also a long tradition of communicative exchange with nature. Sophisticated systems of translation enable interaction with the surrounding ecosystems, not only interpreting nature’s messages, but also actively embodying this communication – an ancient, ongoing dialogue that links human and nonhuman worlds of experience.

This polyphonic conversation is at the heart of the group exhibition Between the Tremor and a Murmur Lies a Sunset, curated by Lorena Moreno Vera. Together with the participating artists, the exhibition investigates different possibilities of translation between human and nonhuman communication systems.

Lorena Moreno Vera is an interdependent curator based in Vienna and Mexico City. Her work explores narratives of natural phenomena and physiological functions through feminist theory, philosophy of science, and traditional knowledge. An MA graduate in Critical Studies (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), she has collaborated with festivals and institutions across Mexico, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, and Australia, including Museo Jumex, Tangente St. Pölten, and Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). She is also part of laschulas, a multidisciplinary collective focused on research, community, and environmental awareness.