Sound installation – For a short time I disappeared (2025)

Is a site-specific sound installation created during a micro-residency at GMEA, France.

Using a counter point between the visual and the sonic I seek to explore the limits of perception in the natural environment. I did this site-specific work, because I seek to interrogate the space as a site of performative presentation and artistic fruition, where the movement, the tension and the synergy of these marble lovers, finds a sensitive blend between new sounds and older forms of artwork. The listeners’ positions shape their experience of the work to a considerable degree.  I seek to explore the relationship between the sculpture and the sound source that could originate a reflection on urban space as a site of sensory exploration, which can not only influence the sounds of a given place, but also the ways individuals perceive the acoustic space around them. Evocative of the space’s texture and movement, these lovers convey a choice between day and night, light and darkens, getting us to listen, to open our minds to sound as an invisible but always present phenomenon, that is never an isolated event. 

The additional audio-visual work is an extention of this installation, using sound recordings of the environment (park where sculpture is located), voice recordings – poetry reading, and electronic sounds. Text by French poet Claire Malroux (1925-2025).