Installation · Space

La Ciudad
de las Sombras

An immersive installation that explores a fictional city; the experience focuses on sound, scent and spatiality to recreate an atmosphere, avoiding visual recreation, iconography or any representation that appeals to the sense of sight. This installation has specialized sound that invites traversing a space invaded by tangible shadows while listening to short stories about some of them.

Light and shadow Urban space Site-specific Installation

Technical Sheet

Andrea Ternera · 2022
Light and shadow installation — site-specific space

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03 — Process

Process description

This work nourished itself across its different media. While designing the spatiality I began designing the sound and writing the stories. After many tests I managed to sculpt the busts with plaster on gauze. The spatiality created by these figures enclosed in the veil gave meaning to the sound spatiality, which was driven mainly by a digital recreation of rain.

Finally I recorded the voices for the stories and put everything together in the assembly. It was important to me to be in darkness and give priority to the sound experience. I accompanied the installation with copal, a resin that releases a smell similar to humidity when boiled.

«The shadow is not the absence of light — it is its most honest architecture.»

Tags / Techniques

Light and shadow Site-specific Urban space Installation Architecture Negative space

Format Site-specific installation

Main technique Light and shadow projection

Material Physical structures — directed light

Presentation Uniandes, 2022

Discipline Installation · Space

04 — Process images

Documentation of the technical development and staging
from early sketches to the final installation.