Miriam Isasi has a PhD in Fine Arts from the EHU/UPV and the UNAM in Mexico. Miriam has received residency programs at the Spanish Academy in Rome (Italy), Artist x Artist (Cuba), BilbaoArte Foundation, Kunsthaus in Bregenz (Austria), EAS-EZE Bitamine Faktoria (Irún-Buenos Aires), MA Studio in Beijing, Nekatoenea in Hendaye (France), Center d’Art i Natura in Farrera (Spain) and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
From a contemporary position, it generates a discourse that is built from winks to anthropology, history, activism, alchemy, landscape and memory.
Miriam has also had different exhibitions at ARTIUM, the Spanish Academy in Rome, the San Fernando Academy, the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Rekalde Hall, MUSAC, HUARTE, CAB, the BilbaoArte Foundation, Azkuna Zentroa Alhóndiga in Bilbao, the San Telmo Museum, Tabakalera, Montehermoso or La Panera Art Center in Lleida among others. Miriam is currently working with Talka Galería in the production and visualization of some of his latest projects.
Previous work
Project concept
They say that the ringing of a good block of marble sounds like a bell. In a ballad a repeated same chorus at the end of every three verses. We will try to coordinate the rhythm of the work of the stonemasons, with the aim of creating a sound piece that lives in and for the quarry. A score of the rhythms of the stonecutters will be made. A synthetic drawing, which marks the rhythm and percussion blows. The final score will be carved on a marble slab. For the final sample in the quarry, the slab with the score will be placed, and the sound piece will be arranged
in a specific place.
Ballada de Cantera
The object is energy, an energy that is expressed through vibrations, synergies, resonances and lines of force, with languages ranging from the intuitive and visceral, to the constructive and symbolic. A representation of the internal rhythms of matter.
Sound cartography, primitive writing and symbolism. The rhythms of the hammer and the pointer when carving the marble define a ‘tempo’, a melody by repetition. The movement of the arm makes a precise parabola. Ordered forms of kinetic energy in a plane. Gestural scores, energy converted into sound.
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