Soledad Coyoli

Soledad Coyoli grew up surrounded by the surrealist paintings of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, her grandmother’s sculptures, La Malinche, La Llorona, the robot parts their uncle used to build, and the sacred music her father listened to. Their sound work draws inspiration from the tradition of Mexican - latin american song and explores the intersection of different languages, cultures, and technologies, as well as their Nahuatl roots (their name means “bell” in Nahuatl). Their music, recipient of the Unesco-Aschberg bursary in 2014, has been presented at some of Mexico’s most important cultural centers, such as the MUAC (University Museum of Contemporary Art), the Franz Mayer Museum, and the Center for Digital Culture in Mexico City.

Since arriving in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, their work has taken a new direction: the voice and the body as fluid, mysterious, mutable and collaborative materials. Soledad explores hybrid musical and bodily territories, in search of a root—an identity—a nepantla, a Nahuatl word often translated as “the land in the middle” that they might call “home.”