Mother Earth's Inner Organs

Ana Bravo-Pérez

Audiovisual Installation / Experimental Film, 2022–2024

Sound design, sound adaptation & 5.1 surround mixing — Juan Orozco

Mother Earth's Inner Organs is an audiovisual project by Ana Bravo-Pérez that traces the journey of coal from its extraction in Wayú territory in northern Colombia to its consumption in the Netherlands, exploring the environmental and social consequences of extractivism.

Moving between documentary research, the experiences of the Wayú people and experimental filmmaking, the work examines the relationship between extractive industries, territory and the communities affected by them. Its narrative moves from the surface of Mma — Mother Earth in Wayuunaiki — towards its depths, combining lived experiences, reflections on colonial extractive practices and experimental visual processes.

Juan Orozco's collaboration began with the sound design for two films presented as a two-channel audiovisual installation. The sound was developed in dialogue with the moving images and the spatial conditions of the installation, contributing to the work's narrative and perceptual dimensions.

As the project evolved into a 22-minute experimental film, Orozco reworked the original sound design for its cinematic form, restructuring the sonic material in relation to the film's new temporal and narrative organization.

He also developed a 5.1 surround mix for cinema, translating the sound design into a multichannel listening environment and exploring spatial relationships, movement and depth.

This transition from installation to cinema became an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between sound, moving images and space, allowing the sonic material to take on new forms across different exhibition contexts.

Credits

Artist / Filmmaker
Ana Bravo-Pérez

Sound design — Original audiovisual installation
Juan Orozco

Sound adaptation and redesign — Experimental film
Juan Orozco

5.1 surround mixing for cinema
Juan Orozco

Formats
Two-channel audiovisual installation / 22-minute experimental film

Project period
2022–2024

FondsSelected Exhibitions & Screenings

2025 — Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom — Ancestral Knowledges: My Grandmother is my School

2024–2025 — 15th Havana Biennial, Wifredo Lam Centre for Contemporary Art, Havana, Cuba

2024 — Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands — The Soils Project: Pluriversity Weavers

2024 — Thai Film Archive, Salaya, Thailand

2023 — TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia — The Soils Project: Pluriversity Weavers

2023 — EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands — Eye on Art

2022 — IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands — World Premiere

2022 — Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Factory, Netherlands — Prospects Mondriaan

Awards

2023 — Best Short Film, Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil

2023 — Premio Quijote, Best Short Film, MIDBO, Bogotá, Colombia

Collection

EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands