Natalia Domínguez Rangel transforms the Cloud at Museum de Fundatie Zwolle into one big bubble, inspired by the ocean. The ocean is a different world, with its own laws. Time passes differently there. When you dive freely, your body changes and adapts to the depth. This fascinates Domínguez Rangel.
Natalia Domínguez Rangel is a Colombian-Dutch visual sound artist and music composer who currently lives and works in Vienna (AT) and Amsterdam (NL). She creates sculptures, installations and performances, always at the intersection of sound and sculpture. Domínguez Rangel creates unique sensory experiences. Her work responds directly to its surroundings and takes everyday listening experiences as its starting point, as well as the acoustic effects of our environment.
Central to her work is an interest in bodily autonomy, empowerment, inclusivity and solidarity, as well as the materiality of both sculpture and sound. Domínguez Rangel has exhibited her work around the world. She is part of the women’s collective laschulas, a collaboration of musicians, sound and visual artists, and curators. She teaches sound studies in the Design Art Technology department at ArtEZ in Arnhem (NL).
Domínguez Rangel is also the winner of the fifth edition of the Mario Merz Prize, awarded by Fondazione Merz (IT), and of the Tera de Marez Oyens Music Composition Prize (NL). She has taught and lectured at Columbia University in New York City (US), the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Die Angewandte and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, all in Vienna (AT).
DEEP DIVE is part of the Fundatie Forward programme, a series of first solo museum exhibitions by contemporary artists who live and work, at least partly, in the Netherlands. With this series, Museum de Fundatie sets art in motion and offers artists a platform for experimentation.
Photography: Simon Veres and Eva Ketely
