Jeudi 21 Septembre 2017 10:00 - Samedi 28 Octobre 2017 20:00 (Heure locale)

Public (ouvert à tous) • EXPOSITION

kurimanzutto is pleased to present the second exhibition by artist Anri Sala in the gallery. Titled All of a Tremble the exhibition explores the relationship between image construction and the physicality of sound.

Situated across two opposite walls in the main gallery space, Sala mechanizes the process of synesthesia, the perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway, in this case the image, leads to automatic experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway, here the sound.

In that sense, sala materializes the shared intersectional limit between the two senses, locating meaning within this gap: the installation works sound and visuality against one another to expose an altogether new sensory dimension, found at the point of their encounter.

In these installations the designs, while manually imprinted on strips of wallpaper by pressing a pencil on the paper against the roller, make reference to the aesthetics of domestic wallpaper design, commenting how originally they were handpainted or applied by block printing.

Two works in the gallery space – All of a Tremble (Encounter II) and All of a Tremble (Delusion/Devolution) – face each other and produce images that take on cinematograpic language: while on one wall two distinct floral motifs encounter each other, referencing a cut, the pattern on the opposite wall slowly recedes in a fade-out.

Through the continuous rotation of a wallpaper printing cylinder around its own axis, its needles streak against the reeds of a metallic comb to produce musical notes and phrases, thus physicalizing the sound of the neighboring patterns. Across both walls Sala exposes that very moment when an image transforms into sound, and sound into an image.

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