Esmeralda Conde Ruiz

About

Esmeralda Conde Ruiz is a Spanish artist based in London.

Her works are an exploration of perception and ephemerality, reducing the world to light and sound. She investigates how environments affect our emotions by creating embodied experiences that contribute to her long-term examination into the relationship between colour and sound. She uses ephemeral materials such as sound, besides transparent lighting gel filters or glass to create installations, sculptures and performances. 

Through her research-based practice Conde Ruiz explores themes of individuality and collectivity and the impact of technology on society in relation to sound. Recent projects have addressed the ethics of artificial intelligence, data storage and the consequences of technological mistakes, highlighting the hidden dimensions of our digital lives.

Much of her practice is based in listening to and amplifying environments and human stories, with a particular interest in the role of machines that surround us and the importance of memories we attach to those sounds. Her continuous and sustained study of human and artificial voices has influenced her to construct large-scale choral compositions into her works, blending human and artificial voices with field recordings of overlooked, everyday domestic or commercial machine sounds, creating atmospheres of calm and tension.