Alamb is a generative performance in which the body merges with clay, shaping ever-changing landscapes inhabited by polymorphic sculptures. The formations interact with one another and with the public, within a soundscape composed of planetary frequencies and the galloping of horses.
Alamb channels a demiurgic feminine force through action. The body becomes a vessel of creation. It moulds, touches, and breaths life into matter. Clay responds to every gesture, not to be fixed into permanence, but to remain in flux, Alamb celebrates fluidity, vulnerability, and the movement of becoming. It invokes a feminine creative principle that is both grounded and cosmic (rooted in the earth, yet resonating with planetary voices).
The title Alamb draws from the Italian verb ‘lambire’ (to graze lightly, as the water might) suggesting a tender yet intense movement. It also echoes ‘lamb,’ the English word for a young sheep. These dual meanings intertwine to define a performative space where fragility and metamorphosis coexist.
The gallop of horse conveys a wild and ancient connection to the earth, recalling an instinctual impulse to move forward, while the ‘voices of the planets’ captured through data sonification anchors the piece in a dimension beyond the terrestrial. In this layered environment, Alamb unfolds as a tactile, sonic, and emotional ecosystem where bodies, matter and sound co-exist in continuous metamorphosis.
The performance was created during an artist residency in Barcelona, at Studio Raro, with the support of Culture Moves Europe in collaboration with the Goethe Institute.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
