Title: Tierras raras, lenguas muertas
Description: A language is a mountain. A drilled land is a language that lets itself be spoken. How does the void of a mountain that is no longer sound? What sound does a system makes while it is destroyed? What happens with the languages that are no longer spoken, with the things that it stops naming and the silences it leaves behind? The immense and intense extractive activity has left us landscapes of holes, sinkholes, and mountains of materials, extracted by extreme force and turned into garbage... Voids abandoned and species that emerge from the detritus, resisting our perception and existing there.  Arturo Hernández Alcázar invites us to reflect on the dispossession and the remains of the languages that we no longer speak and that are probably the languages of the future.
Subjects: Language in art, Artists' books, Specimens
Time periods: 2021, 21st century