Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido #13 is a large-scale analogue photograph that captures the moment an F-18 aircraft is crossing the sound bar- rier. It is a new image (shot in 2015, first printed in 2019) from the internationally renown series that is part of the Permanent Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Deutsche Bank Collection, and the Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, among others, a spectacular visualization of the separa- tion between sound and absolute silence. Training over the course of months and collaborating with engineers, producers, and pilots, Galvani flew parallel to military jets, orchestrating different actions oriented towards a new visionary perspective. In this body of work, boundaries are destabilized, describing the tension of in-between states. Freezing time at the cusp of separation, we are suspended between sound and silence. This project memorializes trace existence in constant flux—articulating and extending the limits of physicality and immateriality. Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido, in its placid yet powerful simplicity, suggests violent trans- formation from a painful process to a peaceful, if transient, state of being.

Boundaries change position, accumulate power, produce energy. They define topol- ogies and conditions of differential equations in mathematics. They govern the laws of physics. Boundaries can be political, geographical, or psychological territories. Llevando una pepita de oro a la velocidad del sonido extends our experience of spa- tial and temporal limits, articulating their physical and conceptual elasticity.