Puerto Rico - January 24, 2026 – Sabroso! is honored to announce Tacto Sonoro – Exploración y Documentación, a new exhibition by Miguel González Cordero in collaboration with Andreína Hidalgo² and Krisia Vélez Rivera exploring the relationship between body, sound, and movement through performative interventions documented in video and audio. The project transforms friction, movement, and bodily rhythms into sonic material, inviting audiences to experience the body as a space of creation.
Tacto Sonoro emerged from an apparently incidental sound experience: the wheels of a wheelchair moving across a wooden floor during a micro-performance residency. This moment prompted attentive listening to previously invisible sonic registers and led to an open, non-prescriptive collaborative process focused on gesture, presence, and documentation. A third artist later joined the process, consolidating a collective research space.
The project positions assistive orthopedic devices as tools for expression and sound generation, transforming friction, movement, and resistance into material that activates a dialogue with the acoustic memory of spaces. Through this practice, the artists explore how to occupy, claim, and negotiate space from historically marginalized bodies, articulating forms of expression that do not rely on verbal language.
Spaces explored include those with symbolic and political significance: the artist’s home, the Capital Building of Puerto Rico, and the school with the wooden floor that inspired the project. In these contexts, sound functions as a living archive of movement, resistance, and memory. The project also engages with the intimate dimension of work, confronting the historic stigma associated with sounds produced by orthopedic devices and transforming what is perceived as noise or interruption into raw material—recognizing these sounds as traces of presence, autonomy, and bodily agency.
Formally, the project manifests through a series of audiovisual explorations with audio-reactive elements, documented in video and sound, alongside visual records that form fragments of an expanding archive. Tacto Sonoro – Exploración y Documentación is conceived as an open process, inviting audiences to experience the Caribbean through touch, gesture, and embodied movement.
This exhibition is made possible in part by the Máquina Simple grant from Beta-Local, with support from the Regional Regranting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Tacto Sonoro – Exploración y Documentación runs from February 5th to March 14th, 2026 at Sabroso! 802 Calle Corchado, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
