Marcelo Exposito

*Limited edition of 50 copies signed by the artist* Casida de la tierra que nos dejan is a sound work by Marcelo Expósito composed of four pieces published on 7’ vinyl record. This work dialogues with the way in which the Italian musician Luigi Nono early adapted the poetry of Federico García Lorca, trying to dig into the layers of idealisation traditionally accumulated about the writer from Granada, in order to carry out a materialistic updating of procedures common to both the writer and the musician.

The piece that gives the project its title, and which recomposes fragments of Lorca's rural trilogy (Bodas de sangre, Yerma and La casa de Bernarda Alba), is organised around the symphonic use of women's voices as a dynamic device, but also a conceptual one when it comes to creating the prototype of a symbolic community convened around the absence of the bodies that have historically and currently disappeared. It is in this same sense that "Gacela del silencio (Lenin en el diván)" - another of the pieces that forms part of this project - incorporates a passage from the soundtrack of Mudanza (2008), the film by Pere Portabella filmed in the Huerta de San Vicente (García Lorca's Museum House), a major work about Lorca as a great synecdoche of the victims of forced disappearance by the Franco dictatorship.

The whole of this project also refers to the almost exact coincidence between two centenaries in 2024: the birth of Nono and the death of Lenin, who is a ghostly presence in the Epitaphs that Nono composed based on Lorca.