What Remains in the Air traces the altered soundscape of the Amazon and the Shipibo-Konibo people from 2025 back to 1925. Conceived as a fragmented symphony, the work reflects on loss—of territory, biodiversity, and musical knowledge—under the pressures of extractivism and climate change.  

The installation comprises a two-channel video environment anchored by cubic forms made of soil. On one side, generative abstractions respond to visitors’ movement, translating bodily presence into shifting constellations of particles. On the other side, footage recorded in the Pucallpa region of the Peruvian Amazon unfolds in three temporal chapters.
In the first chapter, noise prevails: dispersed particles of sound and light repel one another, mirroring pressured ecosystems and fragmented communities. Human presence intensifies this separation. In the second chapter, flows emerge—colored particles drift like rivers or serpents, as ancestral rhythms intersect with experimentation. In the third chapter, harmony returns: earth-toned particles move as a coordinated mass, evoking the territory as a living organism.

Threaded throughout is the ícaro—a healing chant that moves from distortion to clarity. Here, digital systems function as a listening apparatus, situating contemporary media within longer histories of song, memory and communal endurance.

Jimmy Carrillo is an interdisciplinary Peruvian artist and journalist exploring climate change, memory, and indigenous knowledge through technology and storytelling. Author of the award-winning graphic novel 181, he holds a Master in Innovation and works with environmental and human rights groups to amplify unheard voices and promote territorial and cultural sustainability.