27/08/2026
TODAY 🦋
Thursday 27 August at 18.00
Listening session: La Dulzainera by Reyes Santiago Rojas
'La Dulzainera (2025) is Terraza´s first publication, and it is the first in a series of singles about people who make music but are not professionals, and they are not seeking fame or glory.
In 2024, with the support of Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (BKV), I travelled to Colombia to record two songs with my mother in audio and video. My mother plays the harmonica. She is 82 years old and has never been a professional musician. But she plays for pleasure, by instinct, and simply because she likes it. She plays when she is happy and when she is sad. My mother and I, due to the distance between us, began to communicate through songs. The vinyl includes the recording of two songs she wrote, “Sentimental” and “Recuerdos de mis paseos” (Memories of my trips), and a text.
The songs were recorded on the terrace of her home, my childhood home in Bogotá, Colombia.
This will be a listening session featuring the two songs from the single La Dulzainera. We’ll also listen to music featuring harmonicas and Colombian flutes to provide context for the single’s origins. It will be an opportunity to enjoy some drinks, sit back and listen as if we were on a terrace having coffee, and share our thoughts on what we are listening to.'
- Reyes Santiago Rojas
Reyes Santiago Rojas
Reyes is a Colombian visual artist based in Oslo. He believes that personal memory is a vital material, in order to recognise in one's own experience everything that is outside of him, perhaps distant or almost imperceptible. His work navigates between adaptation and change, moving towards a lighter place, trying to dismantle and reduce heavy processes and bring them to their minimum portable part. He moves towards recognizing himself as an immigrant, in the territory of distance. He looks for and uses minimal elements in interventions, installations, images, and actions to understand a tiny part of the universe, finding in this a deep motivation to investigate material culture and its linkages between the coloniality of nature and emotions.
He proposes a form of anarcheology of consumerism; using material that represent the interstice between the new and the used, to search within the endemic relationships where the natural is confused with the artificial.
www.norma-t.org
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