Escuchando, sin tener que traducir más que en formas, 2025

Escuchando, sin tener que traducir más que en formas, 2025, Bells, inner tire tubes, metal chain, iron, 100 × 43 × 8 cm

Sofía Salazar Rosales recreates objects from her home and surroundings, blending organic and industrial elements. Her work features bananas, leaves, sacks, and beams—forms that explore architecture, agro-export dynamics, and modernity’s tensions and promises. In this series, she welds iron into a leaf-shaped sculpture adorned with chains, bells, and deflated bicycle inner tubes. 

The bike tubes reference Amsterdam, where the pieces were created, nodding to its cycling culture. Once enabling movement, they now appear knotted and immobile. Their stillness contrasts with the bells’ latent sound, evoking ritual objects and spiritual significance. 

Through this fusion, Salazar Rosales examines place, memory, and the echoes of tradition in an industrialized world.