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# A Translating Body

Animation for an immersive museum installation

Illustration and animation

I designed the illustrations and animation for an immersive installation in Parque Explora’s Sala de la Mente in Medellín. Made for projections in a physical space, the work explores how the body interprets the world through its senses, with narration and sound accompanying the animated images.

Client

Parque Explora · Medellín

Setting

Sala de la Mente

Deliverables

-   Storyboard and visual studies
-   Illustrated sequences
-   Animation for spatial projection

## In the museum

The animation was designed to be experienced inside the exhibition, rather than on a single screen. These photographs and recordings show the projected images, the room and its visitors.

![A visitor in the immersive projection space](/media/responsive/d052b877bf33f10c-960.webp)

![Un cuerpo traductor: installation entrance at Parque Explora](/media/responsive/3a988f450d714247-960.webp)

![Narration projected inside the installation](/media/responsive/5acdd10aad6bb3dc-960.webp)

## The complete sequence

The full animation, with narration, music and sound design. Its panoramic composition was made for projection inside the room.

3 min 11 sec · Spanish narration

## The body

Hands, figures, water and light introduce the body and its relationship to the world.

## The senses

Patterns, currents and branching forms give visual shape to sensation.

## The natural world

Plants, animals and landscapes connect the body to the living world around it.

[Full installation film](https://vimeo.com/1103283415)[Parque Explora](https://www.parqueexplora.org/)

## Storyboard and visual studies

Early drawings explore how to show perception: a face assembled from sensory organs, a line becoming a wave, branching forms and moving bodies. The studies also test colour and composition across the wide projection format.

![Early storyboard: a face assembled from eyes, ears, mouths and noses](/media/extras/ex-storyboard-face-1600.webp)

![Line study of a spiral and vibration for the sensory sequence](/media/extras/ex-wave-study-1600.webp)

![Green branching cellular forms, a study for A Translating Body](/media/extras/ex-neuron-study-1600.webp)

![Rough composition of figures in pink, yellow and black, exploring bodily gestures](/media/extras/ex-body-study-1600.webp)

![Composition study of eyes and mouths across a multicoloured panoramic field](/media/extras/ex-senses-study-1600.webp)

## Credits

Illustration and animation

Catalina Vásquez

Sound design and music

Eme Isaza

Script and voice-over

Parque Explora team

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Source: https://kathiuska.com/work/a-translating-body/