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CARLOS SANDOVAL MENDOZA



Mona 1  |  Tent Visions 12

Berlin, 2025

Motorized Sonic Automaton (on the floor) and Ink-Drawing (wall)

Sounds: Breath, 2 metal mobiles, 3-tongue kalimba, moving head

 

2025: SHELTER, group exhibition at GlogauAir Studios, Berlin


 

Mona 1, motorized sonic automaton on the floor at GlogauAIR

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Mona 1 (myself) sleeps. Meanwhile, in Tent Visions 12, she seems to sit up after seeing a huge bird watching her from behind the tree. The same vision my dog had hours earlier — that bird behind the tree — watches me, and I sit up, float a little, hidden inside my sleeping bag, as if the bird were calling me. The Mona, or I, is there, asleep, rocked by an ontological clock, or a pulse that could be my heartbeat, or the passing of my life through this world.

 

Tent Visions 12, ink drawing of the Mona waking to see a bird behind the tree

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Mona 1, video

MONA 1 - AUTOMATA

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Mona 1 in action, sound-producing mechanism detail

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