Void in Resonance by Jerónimo Reyes-Retana

Void in Resonance relies on underexposure and aural fragmentation to reveal a unique case of transboundary sonic violence. In this context, an encounter between an oyster field and an iconic spaceport further intensifies the characteristic dissonant asymmetries of the Mexico-US borderlands.

Informed by over three years of field and community work, Void in Resonance—a film installation—captures intimate moments of a SpaceX launch through the eyes of those working in the oyster field, revealing the personal and collective impacts of the land-based infrastructure required for what has been mistakenly called a new era of outer space exploration when, in reality, it marks a new era of outer space industrialization.

Artist Bio

Jerónimo Reyes-Retana is a researcher, artist, and community organizer from Mexico City whose work explores the poetics of infrastructure and the politics of noise in Latin American contact zones—sites shaped by the environmental, geopolitical, and social anxieties arising from the pursuit of progress. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, MX); Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (Ciudad Juárez, MX); Museo Anahuacalli (Mexico City, MX); the Texas Biennial (Texas, US); Distant Gallery (Netherlands); Mario Kreuzberg (Basel, CH); and Co-Lab Projects (Austin, US); among others. His writing has been published by Toda la Teoría del Universo; The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA); xCoAx: Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X; Centro de la Imagen; Storefront for Art and Architecture; and Sociology Lens: Carceral Edgelands.

Reyes-Retana has received the FONCA-CONACYT Fellowship from the Mexican National Council for Arts, Culture, and Technology, as well as the Public and Educational Program Grant from Museo Jumex in Mexico City for his initiative Public Art Program: For a Shared (Outer) Space. In 2025, he was selected as the recipient of the CIFO-Ars Electronica Award. His work is part of the Cisneros-Fontanals collections.

Reyes-Retana is a doctoral candidate in Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado, Boulder (US), and holds an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from the University of Texas at Austin (US).