Camila Sposati

The process of reading music relies on a structure that materializes the experience of listening. Musical notation serves this role, where lines and spaces symbolize different notes. The instrument becomes both the interpreter and transmitter of this intricate mental creation.

Since 2015, Camila Sposati has created instruments that invert this process, where the sound itself becomes the instrument. These works have been exhibited in venues such as Kunsthalle Wien, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), and Lombardi Kargl.

Her piece Coal Score, shown at hoast, reflects the materialization of sound and its material source—coal. By altering the traditional rules of musical composition, Sposati preserves the essence of sound while exploring how imagination can shape it. Her work invites reflection on coal as a natural resource and the challenges of energy distribution.

Camila Sposati
Born 1972 in Saõ Paulo, lives and works in Vienna. Camila Sposati investigates processes of creation and transformation, of the Earth, of the elements, of energy and the social and epistemological systems that shape our experiences of them. Using methods that often approach scientific research methodologies, Sposati examines social and geological systems from the micro to the macro, from the growth of crystals in controlled laboratories to the movement of the Earth’s crust. In her work, Sposati juxtaposes material and historical processes in order to challenge our perception of nature and its significations. Her work was shown at the Kunsthalle Vienna (2021), Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastian (2020), Pivô Arte e Pesquisa (2019), Ecos do Atlântico Sul, Goethe-Institut (2019), BAK – basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2017), Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2013, 2017), 10. Mercosul Biennale, Porto Alegre (2015), CCBB Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2015), 3. Bahia Biennale, Salvador (2014), Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York (2013), HICA Das Hochlandinstitut für zeitgenössische Kunst, Inverness-shire (2012), Montehermoso-Kulturzentrum, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2012), Musée de la Chasse und de la Nature, Paris (2012).

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