Elizabeth Gallón Droste

Elizabeth Gallón Droste is an artist and researcher from Bogotá whose work moves between art and anthropology through the arts of listening as a relational practice. She learns with territo-rivers as living archives, attuning to the stories they sing, tell, and weave across multiple (im)materialities and temporalities beyond (t)here. Her practice follows the question of be/longing within fluvial ecologies beyond extraction, listening toward stories that remain barely perceptible, are forcibly silenced, or are cast as noise. In her work, traces, rocks, voices, minerals, sediments, and other elemental ecologies become ecofonías carrying eco-social memory, through which forms of re-mediation and re-membering emerge. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Spatial Cosmology, HCU Hamburg, part of the duo ~pes, a member of Walking with Water Ghosts, and the author of Útica, Under the Murmuring Waters (Oreri, 2024) and the PhD dissertation Voicing Rivers Atrato (forthcoming, 2026). Her work has been presented at documenta fifteen, Meandering (TBA21 Academy), and RAW Material Dakar.

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