Undercurrents - Buffalo Bayou Partnership

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Undercurrents will construct an immersive chamber of voices, light, and memories within the cavernous Cistern, leading to an audiovisual representation of communication across time, space, and relationships. The work consists of a mile-long, nerve-like network of bright-white LED light cables extending between the space’s 221 columns, suspended just over the mirrored surface of water covering the floor. The resulting matrix of zigzagging lines of light creates a seemingly endless “switchboard” of connection across the entire width and length of the Cistern, an effect which is doubled by the uncanny reflectivity of the water pooled at the bottom of this monumental piece of Houston’s infrastructural history.

It is presented in connection with Buffalo Bayou Partnership. the event is scheduled for 2026-04-24.

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