For Our Flowing Voices; I Amphorae
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg•Sep 07, 2025 — Jan 09, 2026
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Our bodies are crossed by multiple voices that, exceeding the limits of flesh, tend to lose their individuality and claim space. In her exhibition For Our Flowing Voices; I Amphorae, at the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Lara Dâmaso sets aside her physicality, allowing the work to exist without her presence.
In the church of the Monastery of Our Lady in Magdeburg, dating back to the eleventh century, her body dissolves to make room for breath, opening itself to actively intensify its reception, becoming the channel that allows its passage and makes it audible.
She dissects itself into five ceramic amphorae containing water, whose shapes and sizes are molded by the flow of her voice, shaped by passing through five corresponding bodily spaces: the pelvic floor, the abdomen, the chest, throat and mouth, and the skull.
The sculptures thus become spaces of resonance, generating a scale that ranges from the deep tones of the pelvic diaphragm to the high tones of the head…
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For Our Flowing Voices; I Amphorae
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg•Sep 07, 2025 — Jan 09, 2026
Press Release
Our bodies are crossed by multiple voices that, exceeding the limits of flesh, tend to lose their individuality and claim space. In her exhibition For Our Flowing Voices; I Amphorae, at the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Lara Dâmaso sets aside her physicality, allowing the work to exist without her presence.
In the church of the Monastery of Our Lady in Magdeburg, dating back to the eleventh century, her body dissolves to make room for breath, opening itself to actively intensify its reception, becoming the channel that allows its passage and makes it audible.
She dissects itself into five ceramic amphorae containing water, whose shapes and sizes are molded by the flow of her voice, shaped by passing through five corresponding bodily spaces: the pelvic floor, the abdomen, the chest, throat and mouth, and the skull.
The sculptures thus become spaces of resonance, generating a scale that ranges from the deep tones of the pelvic diaphragm to the high tones of the head…
