This mesmerizing piece of conceptual photography captures a defining, performative moment within María José Arjona's critical environmental project. The image portrays a solitary figure inside a rustic canoe, balancing a monumental copper cone that pierces the expansive, cloud-filled horizon to channel the molecular memory of the Colombian jungle. Arjona masterfully uses the photographic medium to dissolve the boundaries between the human body, the soundscape, and the viewer.
Other Possible Forests unfolds a horizon of vital potentialities, where listening serves as a conduit for exploring the natural world, immersing us in its molecular memory and transposing the sounds and language of the Colombian jungle into the urban realm. Following the course of the Guaviare River to Cerro Azul in the San José del Guaviare region, María José Arjona meticulously gathers the sonic heritage of this pivotal and liminal territory. This act of listening emerges as a political gesture, positing the body as a site of resonance and a nexus between disparate worlds. The photographs emerge as one of the multifaceted layers constituting the totality of the project, forging a nuanced relationship between the creation of visual imagery and the soundscapes that inherently envelop them. Central to these compositions, the copper cone invites the viewer to engage in an act of listening that transcends visual perception. This perfor-imaginative exercise hints at the emergence of another forest beyond the perceptible, an affective space shared by beings that co-vibrate with the planet. In this context, distinctions
Between the artist's corporeal presence, what we conventionally classify as nature, and the observer become increasingly porous; dissolution manifests as the sonic dimension permeates the visual horizon, submerging anthropocentric narratives and situating us within a less predictable yet profoundly affective realm.
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Conceptual Photography - All Possible Forests #9 2022-2023. By María José Arjona
ALL POSSIBLE FORESTS #9, 2022- 2023
From the series All Possible Forest
Inkjet print on photo rag bryta (Archival Paper)Dimensions:
Image size: 37.5 H x 37.5 W in.
Sheet size: 43 H x 43 W in.Edition 3/3 + 2AP
Unframed
María José Arjona, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia, 1973, lives and works in Miami. She received her master's degree in visual arts from the Academia Superior de Arte in Bogota. She has also been an artist-in-residence at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center in New York. Her most recent performance exhibitions have been at the South Florida Art Center in Miami, the Miami Light Project, the Ballroom Marfa in Texas and the Damien-B Contemporary Art Center in Miami. She has also exhibited video performances at the Galleri Se in Bergen (Norway) and at the Museo de Barrio in New York.

















