LiLeón presents Words and Silence, an immersive experience honoring Salomé Ureña

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, October 30, 2025 — As part of the exhibition Siempre Salomé, visual artist LiLeón presented her work Words and Silence (2025) at Dos Calles, Espacio Creativo, during a gathering dedicated to reflecting on the poetic and intellectual legacy of Salomé Ureña, commemorating the 175th anniversary of her birth.

Words and Silence is an immersive installation conceived by LiLeón as a poetic and sensory experience that proposes contemporary ways of preserving and keeping alive the memory of Salomé Ureña. The work invites viewers to inhabit language from an intimate perspective, where pause, light, and silence intertwine to awaken reflection through Salomé’s poetry.

During the event, LiLeón—artist and president of the Fundación Conexión LiLeón—shared the conceptual foundations of the piece and its relationship to the exhibition Siempre Salomé, presented at Dos Calles, Espacio Creativo.

The work takes the form of a metal cylinder measuring 100 cm in diameter, installed in an enclosed space of approximately 4 × 4 meters, lined with padding and integrated with LED lighting and a surround sound system. This configuration enables a multisensory experience that brings together the listening of stanzas from Salomé Ureña’s poems, the direct reading of her texts, and an olfactory evocation through the scent of magnolias, the poet’s favorite flowers.

Inspired by references from contemporary art such as Jim Sanborn, the piece creates a space of introspection where word and silence become vehicles for memory and contemplation, proposing an intimate and contemporary relationship with the figure of Salomé Ureña as a source of light and inspiration.

The gathering was part of the educational program Jueves en Dos Calles and featured the participation of Lilian Carrasco, curator of the exhibition, and Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo, writer and senior researcher in gender studies, with moderation by Yamile Eusebio, executive director of Fundación Conexión LiLeón. The event brought together artists, curators, cultural managers, critics, academics, collectors, and members of the media.

About Siempre Salomé

The exhibition brings together previously unseen works by seven prominent Dominican visual artists—Elsa Núñez, Iris Pérez Romero, Inés Tolentino, Iris de Mondesert, Guadalupe Casasnovas, and Mayra Johnson—alongside the immersive proposal Words and Silence by Lidia León and the installation Rain of Verses by students of the Altos de Chavón School of Art and Design: Ángel Mikael Lantigua Abreu, Agatha Porcher, Luisa Angélica Pichardo Rodríguez, Ashley Dumé, Ashley Grullón, and Camila Febrillet.

The exhibition also includes the audiovisual work Brilliant Minds: Salomé Ureña / Mentes Brillantes: Salomé Ureña, produced by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, directed by Adriana Bosch with executive production by Dr. Ramona Hernández.

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