The first part of Conmoción total en mi células proposes a dialogue between the “organic mass drawings” of the artist Esteban Igartua and the “breathing scores” of the artist Genietta Varsi. The working process was based on a dynamic of stimulus and response and back and forth. The result is a juxtaposition of image and sound that make the dichotomous categories complex – such as interior/exterior and macro/micro – that go through the bodies.

Esteban: Genietta’s breathing scores make me think of mouths and noses pulling and releasing air. Also, the idea of a body or mass that inflates and deflates, or a form of bud or flower that opens and closes at different speeds. There are longer and deeper breaths that make me think of softer and wider spaces of air, and other shorter and more repetitive that evoke small hollows or twinges. They also convey to me, in certain cases, a sense of movement, like a march towards something.

Genietta: My process was based on using Esteban’s drawings as scores. To perceive them as deep spaces that carry a temporality and that mark sequences, sounds and silences. The respiratory sequences that I proposed run through the spaces of his drawings, they enter, leave, turn around. I followed the rhythms they propose with my inhalation and exhalation. Her drawings vibrate, pulsate, breathe and rotate; they are materially static but have a living, organic movement. Each drawing beats like a microscopic mass and also like a mass the size of the planet. Each pore blows. Each pore explodes. Each pore unfolds outwards.