Palabreras de la muerte (Speakers for the dead)
SAC Tenerife•Sep 12, 2025 — Oct 31, 2025
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Speakers for the dead [Palabreras de la muerte] explores possible ways of resurrecting people considered dead or missing. By placing themselves “in between” the living and the dead, the speakers show us that remembering is not only an exercise in memory, but also an action that involves a creative gesture: inventing, tracing a story and giving it form.
The figure of the speakers for the dead appears fleetingly in some examples of literature and philosophy, from Orson Scott Card’s novel to the theoretical elaborations of thinkers such as Donna Haraway. In this project, the speakers are conceived as a metaphor for activating new narratives: agents who do not speak in place of dead people, but alongside them. They are mediators who propose new forms of translation and presence, activating languages of care and listening with what is traditionally understood as absent.
Technology – including the word itself – holds a central place in the exhibition, not as a neutral tool, but rather as…
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Palabreras de la muerte (Speakers for the dead)
SAC Tenerife•Sep 12, 2025 — Oct 31, 2025
Press Release
Speakers for the dead [Palabreras de la muerte] explores possible ways of resurrecting people considered dead or missing. By placing themselves “in between” the living and the dead, the speakers show us that remembering is not only an exercise in memory, but also an action that involves a creative gesture: inventing, tracing a story and giving it form.
The figure of the speakers for the dead appears fleetingly in some examples of literature and philosophy, from Orson Scott Card’s novel to the theoretical elaborations of thinkers such as Donna Haraway. In this project, the speakers are conceived as a metaphor for activating new narratives: agents who do not speak in place of dead people, but alongside them. They are mediators who propose new forms of translation and presence, activating languages of care and listening with what is traditionally understood as absent.
Technology – including the word itself – holds a central place in the exhibition, not as a neutral tool, but rather as…
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