Saturday, October 5, 2024

Matadors, space travel and Elton John: meet Mexican artist Denise de la Rue

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Art is certainly everywhere in the Liria, which we go through together one Sunday. We enter an Italian living room replete with Renaissance masterpieces; a Dutch room bedecked with Old Masters; and a ballroom, where a replica of the Voyager Golden Record, included aboard the Voyager spacecraft of 1977, sits proudly beside a gramophone. The sound, however, comes from another speaker, playing a version of the record, The Sounds of Earth, remixed by a friend of De La Rue’s who is a techno DJ. “So fun!” she beams. The original record, two of which were created and carried into space, contains sounds and images portraying life and culture on Earth. Their intended audience? Aliens. In her show notes, De La Rue writes that she is fascinated by exploration, “first of the planet and now of the cosmos”; efforts which she ultimately sees as “an exploration of our soul”.

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