Gil Delindro
Gil Delindro (1989, Porto) is a sound & visual artist with recognition for its site-specific research, namely on worldwide challenging landscapes, isolated communities, and extreme geological and weather patterns. Gil studied architecture in Porto before switching to sculpture, but music had been an interest since he started drumming as a child. Moving to Germany, he was drawn to Berlin. 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.
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.
His works included 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).
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 has collaborated with labels such as "Tzadik" NY, "Sonoscopia" Porto, and "Ausland" Berlin.