Els Viaene
The place
Le Pavillon
Language
All
Hours and dates
- From 10am to 6pm daily
Els Viaene (1979, Belgium) started her work as a sound artist / field recordist in 2001. With a set-up of two small microphones she listens, zooms into and enlarges the aural landscapes surrounding us. The natural rhythms and textures of the sounds hidden in those landscapes form the basis of her work.
Working on these sound materials for performances, sound compositions or installations she makes the listeners travel in imaginary and organic environments. Through the specific use and set-up of sound within a space her installations create new spaces within existing ones, either emphasizing or making dissapear the physical borders of that space.
In doing so she often plays with the notions of seeing and hearing, the perception of what we see and hear and how both interfere.
The Mamori Expedition
As part of the Capture #2 exhibition to be held at Le Pavillon from 23 September 2023 to 14 January 2024
A wooden installation replicates the path that artist Els Viaene followed during an expedition through the Brazilian Amazon Forest in 2009. The three wooden arms of the sculpture are a scale model of the Amazon River and are filled with water. A headset and a hammer-like stick, the ‘hydrophone’, allow you to “hear” the water. Once you insert the stick into the water and you move along the twists and turns of the sculpture, the sounds Els recorded during the expedition are reproduced.
The Mamori Expedition catapults the viewer into the middle of the Amazon forest and invites the viewer to explore the river and its sounds in a very tactile way.
Concept, audio registration, microphones, technical realisation : Els Viaene
Wooden model : Jeroen Verschuren
This artwork is a coproduction by Netwerk Aalst and Q-O2.
With the support of the Flemish authorities.
