Matriarchs From Malafo

In the rainy season, when rice sprouts still find their way to flooded rice fields, a sonic experiment collapses voices and sounds from now and then. Tales from Malafo are also tales of humanity; they recount dreams, desires, longings, and hopes; they are about people who fight together to heal the wounds circumstances have opened up. Inherited wounds for which one must still take responsibility, in search of a balance where love thrives in the community and land. The vocal testimonies of matriarchs, the songs and tales of children and their children, adult and elderly men, the speech of rivers and boulders, the stories told by birds and the wind. Living and non-living, material and immaterial beings are summoned to bend time in the sonoteca – ringing land, seeding sounds, sonoteca – a space recently built with the Malafo community as part of the Mediateca Onshore to store sounds that have passed through and are still to come. MATRIARCHS OF MALAFO is a sound installation dealing with synesthesia to send messages about the reconstruction of entanglements.