Gil Delindro (1989, Porto) is a Sound & Visual artist with international recognition for its site-specific research, namely on worldwide challenging landscapes, isolated communities, and extreme geological and weather patterns. Some of these include the Sahara Desert (TWOM, 2015), Rainforests of Brazil (Resiliência, 2017), Siberia, Russia (Permafrost, 2018), Vietnam ethnic villages (Blind Signal, 2019), the Rhone Glacier (La Becque, 2019), the Aurvergne Volcanoes (ArtistesenResidence, 2021). the Northumberland National Park ( Visual arts for Rural Communities, UK 2022). His work is present in both private and public collections such as the European Patent Office and Lower Silesian Society for the Arts, and has been exhibited in Europe, North and South America, and Asia, with awards by institutions such as EPO art Award (NL), Berlin Masters Award (DE), VARC (Visual Arts for Rural Communities, UK), ENCAC (European Network for Comtemporary Av Creation), EMARE (European Media Art), EDIGMA Semibreve (media art award, PT), Gulbenkian Foundation (PT), Berlin Senate for Kultur(DE), STEIM foundation(NL), Francoise Meier Foundation (La Becque, CH), EOFA (Embassy of Foreign Artists, CH), DGartes (Portuguese Ministry for Culture, PT). Delindro explores innovative ways of capturing sound phenomena and environmental data, by integrating scientific research methods into the framework of experimentation in the arts, the end result becomes spatial and material-conscious, a reflexive practice that is not meant to explain the landscape (as in Science), but to directly experience its ephemeral and intangible qualities. These Sculptures actively use the unpredictable effects of time, weather, erosion, and outdoor atmospheric conditions, opposing them to acoustic-manufactured tools. Installations that have their own autonomy, living from the constant clash between “man-made” and “biological structures”. Without forcing direct political messages, Delindro’s work dwells on the contemporary struggle between humans and their rapidly changing environment, by interrogating in each ways the human perception of “Nature” can be challenged. A research-based practice that expands on the links between ecology, geology, anthropology, and acoustics. In 2016 he was selected by SHAPE platform as one of the most innovative Sound Artists working in Europe, being commissioned by reference festivals such as MusikProtokoll (AU), Novas Frequências (BR), CynetArt (DE) Athens Digital Arts Fest(GR), ARS Eletronica(AU), Submerge festival(UK), Semibreve(PT), Lisboa Soa(PT). His work has been positively reviewed in numerous online and printed press releases: DAMN 81(De) Contemporanea(Pt) Berlin Art Link(DE), ORF1(AU), Musikworks (CA), NEURAL magazine (IT), The Quietus (UK), BoundBaw Science and Biodesign(JP), CBC ( CA), among others. Reference exhibitions include: " Permafrost " Laboral, Gijon; "BADaward - Biological Clocks of the Universe” - MU Art Center, Netherlands; “A grain within this cloud of Dust” - Gallery im Turm, Berlin; “ A perennial earth” - Goethe Institute Vietnam; "Harbour" - Living Art Lab, Amsterdam; "To bough and to bend" Bridge Projects, Los Angeles; "Fictional Forest" Triennal de Arquitectura, Lisboa; “Rhone” WRO biennial of media Art, Wroclaw, Poland. “Resilience” Serralves Museum for Comtemporary Art. He is the co-founder of "Rural Vivo", a cross-disciplinary association dedicated to ecological, educational, and cultural activities in the UNESCO Gerês Reserve (North Portugal), whose main objective is to fight the loss of cultural opportunities in the Nordic rural villages, and innovate on the ecological preservation of the region. Among others he has collaborated with labels such as "Tzadik" NY, "Sonoscopia" Porto, and "Ausland" Berlin. Selected Awards & Grants ( all through open public competition) :
full CV by request Press Quotes: " Delindro makes the invisible visible—and audible. With the Algerian-Moroccan desert as his starting point, he extracts the location’s expansive yet sparse and lifeless qualities, bringing them to the Berlin metropolis. Standing in front of the gallery’s entrance, one can already hear sonic moans..." Sofia Bergmann, Berlin Art Link 2018 “ Through his use of sound and musicality, Gil Delindro extends an invitation to practice a countercultural form of perception that moves beyond great world events and their far-reaching consequences. This form of perception seeks out the political by fostering a sensibility for the reality of vibrant matter, and a respect for a world in which all forms of materiality appear to be animate. “ Lena Reisner, Gallery im turm 2018 “There’s something about this performance from Berlin-based Portuguese artist Gil Delindro that immediately recalls an ominous science experiment (..) It’s fascinating and strangely visceral watching him build up sounds out of natural objects." Tara Joshi, The quietus 2017 " Delindro performs with both intimacy and brutality, giving the audience the vivid pleasure of attending a risky business. Stunning. " Yannis Trouinard - The Chop Magazine (Berlin) 2016 " Like the transcendentalists, seeks to understand the human experience through solitary communion with nature(...) everyday sounds into oceanic swells that swept across the room. Delindro has clearly given a lot of thought to his complicated relationship with technology, Amplifies Nature through judicious, thoughtful use." Jonathan Bruce on Canadian magazine MUSICWORKS 2014 “ I was astounded not only by the breadth of Gil’s work, spanning numerous mediums, but also at his incredible thematic focus rare for an artist of his young age. Part of Gil’s focus no doubt comes from the large spans of time he regularly spends alone in the wilderness(..) The artist is bound to shape his work in unexpected and exciting ways." - Luke Nickel, Co-Director of Cluster: New Music and Integrated Arts Festival Contact g.delindro (at) gmail (dot) com |
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