September 26 – December 20
Andrés Ramírez Gaviria’s Sources (Toronto) (2026) is a site-specific light installation that transforms astronomical radio signals—some originating within our galaxy and others emitted by pulsars and quasars billions of years ago in the distant universe—into a dynamic sequence of light. These patterns are based on data gathered by radio telescopes through a collaboration with Zsolt Paragi, senior scientist at the Joint Institute for VLBI (JIVE), and Raffaella Morganti, senior astronomer at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON). The slow, rhythmic, pulsing lights represent the movement of celestial objects across the sky, introducing a different temporality, one of deep time. For Andrés, the disruption exists in what is lost or omitted in the translation of this information from radio waves to light. Because the radio signals travel across vast distances and timescales, they offer a tangible link to phenomena unfolding across cosmic history.
Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art, co-presented with CN Tower, and made possible with the generous support of Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art
View additional work by Andrés Ramírez Gaviria at the Toronto Biennial’s main exhibition site at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
Bio
Bio
Andrés Ramírez Gaviria
Andrés Ramírez Gaviria is an artist born in Bogotá, Colombia, and based in Vienna, Austria. His work explores intersecting histories of science, philosophy, technology, communication, mysticism, programming, language, and translation. His practice reconfigures cultural and intellectual motifs through methodologies that propose alternative modes of perception and thought. Employing strategies such as reenactment, appropriation, telepathy, and transference, Gaviria highlights points of tension and dialogue between contemporary experience and shifting interpretations of historical knowledge.
His work has been exhibited at Kunsthaus Graz, Kunsthaus Dresden, BA-CA Kunstforum and BAWAG Contemporary in Vienna, Lentos Museum in Linz, GAMeC in Bergamo, the Caribbean Biennial in Santo Domingo, the Museum of Modern Art and the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República in Bogotá, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, as well as Sonambiente and Transmediale in Berlin, among others. He has participated in residencies at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna and the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.
Gaviria is the recipient of the Transmediale.06 Award and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Two monographs—Between Forms of Representation and Interpretation (Onomatopee, 2012) and A Line, However Short, Has an Infinite Number of Points (Triton, 2016)—have been published on his work. His writing has appeared in Leonardo, #Errata, Flash Art International, and other publications.
In 2014, he co-founded Sigmund, and in 2017 Anna, two non-profit exhibition spaces in Vienna, together with Norbert Pfaffenbichler. He also collaborates with Elisabeth Kihlström and Yuki Higashino on the journal Agency. Gaviria studied media theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and holds a BFA from Boston University and an MA from the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
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TTC: Near Union Station station; 509 Harbourfront and 510 Spadina streetcars
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