IMPRINTED
2022, Sculpture
Isabel Judez
PLA, resin and steel.
Dimensions : Ø 54 x 25 cm.
Personal exhibition at Le Hublot d’Ivry. Ivry-sur-Seine, France 2023.
Excerpt :
Composed of a kinetic structure made of 600 artificial stones forming two superimposed waves, the work activates a geological and political memory linked to extractivism in the ancestral forest of Canaima, on the edge of the Venezuelan Amazon.
Rather than extracting materials from a territory considered sacred according to the cosmovision of Indigenous peoples, Isabel Judez employs digital fabrication tools. This technical shift becomes a critical gesture: it questions the role of technology within symbolic ecosystems and proposes an alternative to extractive logic.
The installation places two narratives in tension. On one hand, the legal and illegal exploitation of gold, supported by state policies. On the other, Indigenous resistance, which led to the repatriation of the “Kueka” stone twenty years after its removal and exhibition in Europe.
Presented at Galerie Le Hublot d’Ivry, the work is accompanied by a sound piece composed of field recordings. The flow of water, gradually altered by mechanical intervention, becomes an acoustic metaphor for the transformation of territories under the impact of machines.
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Sound Piece
Original Work of Isabel Judez
Artists contibutors : Antonin Bexon and Iga Vandenhove.
Duration of 5:13 minutes
For her exhibition at Le Hublot gallery in Ivry, the artist expanded the sensory experience by creating a sound piece that incorporates field recordings, immersing the viewer in the auditory experience of disrupted water flow.
The accompanying sound piece, made entirely from real-life sounds and field recordings, recreates a fictional reality, inviting the viewer to experience these drifts sensorially, following the path of water from downstream to the sea and its passage through extractivist machines. This work bridges the material and sonic, drawing attention to the impact of human intervention on both the natural landscape and indigenous cultural heritage.
Citation of Smohalla, native america indien leader (Wanapums tribe) :
“You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother’s bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stones! Shall I dig under her skin for bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men, but how dare I cut my mother’s hair?”
Art direction and original concept :
Isabel Judez
Original sculpture / Isabel Judez
Collaborators for the sound piece / Antonin Bexon and Iga Vandenhove.
Parametric design consultant :
Johan Navarro / Estudio Panamétrico
3d printing and modeling :
Pierre-Loup Boisseau / Atelier PLB
Photographie :
Alexis Lucena, Aloyse Leledy et Iga Vandenhove
Galerie :
Le Hublot d’Ivry