Traces and Dirty Listening by Jonathan Castro Alejos is focused on visual and sonic practice, grounded in ongoing research into alternative/experimental ways of approaching the margin. This margin is not merely a boundary, but a charged threshold: a space beyond the circuits of urban productivity, where denial, noise, and natural forces accumulate and interact.
Working with traces, fragments, and the so-called undesirable elements of urban space becomes a method for constructing and archiving new perceptual and material narratives. This research foregrounds the unfinished and the unstable — elements through which future possibilities emerge not as smooth visions, but as layered, contested, and uneven realities.
By focusing on these overlooked dynamics, my research attempts a critical way of sensing the built environment and our relation with spaces – tracing shifting textures of time, revealing hidden layers of time, and uncovering fragments through which new visual and spatial futures may quietly emerge.

Jonathan Castro Alejos is a Peruvian multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. Working across sound, video, installation, and performance, his practice explores the tension between the real and the imagined. Through a process of collecting, layering, and reconfiguring raw materials, he constructs immersive visual and sonic worlds. His recent release, Radiance Loops, continues this exploration—merging field recordings, lo-fi loops, and textured soundscapes into a meditative reflection on material and space.