La Memoria es un Pájaro, or multimedia poetry in the drift

Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay meditates on multimedia and sound artist Pablo Francisco Morales’s solo exhibition La Memoria es un Pájaro at the Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (IMAC) in Tijuana during early summer 2022. Morales’ work opens the social and psychic experience of mourning through mediatic dispersal across audio, video, photography, dramatising how mourning’s demands on signification unsettle material and perceptual reality. The exhibition also invites a hemispheric and regional approach to sound art rooted in the borderlands, which links Morales’ decidedly semiotic and transmedial conception of sound art to broader questions about social and political genealogies for its theory and practice.