Iren Márquez Dos Santos is an artist and researcher whose practice engages sound archives and music creation as tools of resistance and healing. Moving across sound design, field recording, music production, workshops and performance, they generate spaces for radical listening and resistance against the erasure enacted by the unilateral gaze of Western epistemologies, bringing into bodily and historical resonance the experiences of Afro-descendant diasporic communities.
Their research traces the political materiality of the sea through an analysis of underwater sound as a medium capable of revealing fractured and conflicting environmental realities above the water, shaped by colonial and neocolonial historical narratives. Within this framework, rhythmic contamination and Afrofuturist trans-oceanic frequencies operate as forms of sonic intervention and healing.
Iren has presented work in institutions including Matadero Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Judson Church of New York, Conde Duque, among others, situating their emerging practice within a curatorial discourse at the crossroad of sound, art, and antiracist trans activism.
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