Whistles in the silence

Abstract

In the installation work Amplified Silence, the ceramic objects have been crafted using pre-Hispanic techniques used centuries ago in the production of vessels. An aerophone whistle emanates from the vessels every time a hashtag related to domestic or gender violence is emitted. Paradoxically, what the pleasant hiss of the vessel ringing in the room announces is a linguistic act of violence. The artist Cecilia Flores has arranged a complex articulation between different orders of temporality: from domestic everyday life, from an ancestral pre-Hispanic technique, from social networks, from digital platforms (such as Twitter - now X), even from the relationship of the public with the work in the museum room. This plot, composed of strata of heterogeneous temporalities, operates as a sensitive sounding board for a form of violence that occurs daily, silenced in the order of the domestic.