Tummo

Tempesta Gallery presents the site-specific project “Tummo” by Ana Hillar.

"Tummo" identifies a state of introspection, discovery, and listening without prejudice or fear, of the vital and powerful energy that flows and transforms the body, organs, cells, bloodstream, brain, and nervous system.

“Extracting material from the earth and using ancient techniques such as wood firing brings the works closer to the roots of an ancestral culture, in direct dialogue with the slow and lengthy process, like a repetitive mantra. First, there is only a void, the perception of the void, listening. Building around the void with the rhythmic cadence of the body's pulses, a constant repetition of the gesture, like the breath of 12,000 liters of air that flow through us every day. 'Tummo' is the expression of the beat that tirelessly resists, endures, and repeats, inevitably incessant.” – Ana Hillar