Echo-Système [Echo-System]

The artists brought together here have moved away from what has become the classical approach of ‘sound objects’ or ‘musical machines’, derived from the practice of sculpture or musical theatre, to interrogate the implications of the dimension of sound in how we perceive the world

The exhibition deliberately presents approaches where sound appears in a variety of forms (breath, voice, music, ‘noise’) that serve each artist’s own preoccupations: human behaviour for Angela Bulloch, the direct production of sound form for Céleste Bourcier-Mougenot, speech acts and language for Éric Maillet, energy for Ange Leccia and imaginary territories for Patrice Carré. The sonic dimension of everything that we are generally faced with undoubtedly goes in the direction of dematerialising of the artwork. Nevertheless, these processes, as diverse as they are, all deal with the question of the position of the visitor, between spectator and listener, spectator and participant. In this sense, the presence of a composer like Céleste Boursier-Mougenot among four visual artists expands upon the consideration of the ideas of the concert and the sound installation, while attesting to the now increasingly important permeability of the boundaries between the worlds of music and the visual arts.