Project 33
El tiempo como las piedras - Tau Luna Acosta
March 31st - May 26th, Tangent Projects gallery, inauguration Friday, March 31st, 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
The Earth’s centre is a deposit of magnetite, a mineral that makes the earth a giant magnet. All migrating bodies, from the most immense to the tiniest, have fragments of magnetite in their bodies. Magnetite allows them to create routes of displacement by sensing the earth's magnetic fields and to find the most suitable places for their survival; in order to know where to go and how to return.
Although humans also have a small piece of magnetite in our skulls, it is not connected to our nervous system and thus serves as a remnant of our connection to other migratory beings rather than a functional sense. We possess a fossil from the center of the Earth within our heads, but lack a compass. Our bodies lack any explicit guidance regarding our place in the world or how to return to our origin.
“El tiempo como las piedras” (Time, like Stones) is an artistic research project that endeavors to create a dialogue between stones and human migrants. By bringing the atomic particles of both together, the project aims to uncover stories about the world where there are intersecting geological events, such as volcanic eruptions that allow magnetite to rise to the earth's surface, the solar explosions that make life possible, wars for land tenure which all our ancestors have endured, and the violence that lies in our lack of language to share our memories.
Tau Luna Acosta is a Colombian visual artist, researcher, curator and teacher, based in Barcelona.
Tau holds a degree in Art History and Curatorship with a focus on Latin American contemporary art from the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino, and an MFA in Sound Art from the Universidad de Chile. In addition to their Master's candidacy in Cultural Studies with a Queer and Feminist perspective from the Universidad Miguel Hernandez, they have also completed a specialization in Afro-Caribbean and Latin American Thought from CLACSO in 2020/21.
They were a co-creator of the Academy of Electronic Arts and Crafts in Bogotá in 2018 with the support of the Mayor's Office, and a researcher in the area of archives and documentation at MAC in Santiago de Chile in 2016 and 2017.
They have been honored with several fellowships, including the Independent Studies Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) in 2019/20, the WHW Akademija in Zagreb in 2022, and the Matadero-La Escocesa Exchange Scholarship in 2023.
Tau currently serves as the coordinator of pedagogical projects at La Creatura, a cooperative that promotes job insertion for trans and non-binary individuals in Barcelona. In addition to their work at La Creatura, they are an active member of the participatory mediation guild at the Santa Monica Art Centre and a resident artist at La Escocesa. With their involvement in multiple organizations, Luna demonstrates a commitment to fostering inclusive and equitable spaces for underrepresented communities, particularly within the art and creative sectors.
Tau has participated in group exhibitions at MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona), Museo de la memoria y los DDHH Santiago de Chile, Museo Casa de la Memoria Medellín, the EAC (Espacio de arte contemporáneo Montevideo), among many others. Additionally, they have taken part in numerous residencies and festivals across Latin America and Europe.
They have co-curated exhibitions at MACBA and the LGBTQI Center in Barcelona and their work is part of the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile and Espacio El Dorado in Bogotá.
Project collaborators -
Feli Cabrera
Audio programming, prototyping and electronic system assembly. Sound design
Luiza Fagá
Camera, photography design and editing. Conceptual support.