Descender

Group exhibition in the Sala de Bóvedas at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque in Madrid, with ten creators combining sculpture, sound, light and installation along an underground route.

Descender is a group exhibition staged in the Sala de Bóvedas at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque in Madrid. Its starting point is an idea by the philosopher María Zambrano, who conceives thought as an act of descent. The underground architecture of the space serves as the basis for a dialogue between matter, memory and sensory perception, which visitors experience as they descend below ground.

Ten creators take part with proposals spanning sculpture, sound, light and visual installations. The route begins at the access staircase, where a sound poem by Jorge Eduardo Eielson plays, and continues with pieces by Ángeles Marco made from rubber and steel. In the main rooms, Carmen de Ayora and Toni Hervás present the installation Non é fácile essere un Arco, built from alchemical and mythological symbols; Eulàlia Valldosera offers a sculptural and sound work with a water circuit, and Jimena Kato works with hybrid forms in ceramic and magnetic powder.

The exhibition is completed by the sculptures of Ana Mazzei and Ludovica Carbotta, the actions of Élan d'Orphium and a light setting by Sofía Montenegro that visually links all the rooms.