Flux donnés à entendre (2011)

Solo exhibition at Musée Réattu, Arles
14.05 – 22.05.2011

Exhibition consisting in nine new audio installations spread in the museum in dialogue with works form the museum collection.

Various audio sources have been used for this intervention, including audio documentation of the museum space with air conditioners, sounds recorded during the accrochage of the museum yearly exhibition, sounds from the Phonurgia Nova archive and from the artist's personal archive, MIDI files of Wagner's opera « Flying Dutchman » as well as movie soundtracks.

Opening on may 14 2011, 19 - 01h
Musée Réattu , 10, rue du Grand Prieuré, 13200 Arles, France
www.museereattu.arles.fr

Project realized in collaboration with Phonurgia Nova
www.phonurgia.org


"As a guest of the effervescent setting of the Musée Réattu | Sur mesures, where revolve contemporary art and Old Master paintings, Gilles Aubry – an anthropologist at least as much as a sound sculptor – draws the raw material of a journey that puts everything at stake. Inserted into the network of the museum spaces, his intervention Flux donnés à entendre works as an ionizing layer, quietly modifying the relationship between sculpture, drawing and photography present in the site. By varying the asymmetry of the eye and ear, he subtly telescopes an exhibition tailored to "fix" the look. At the same time, while he blurs the boundaries of perception, he questions the basis of the divisions of knowledge and taste. What is striking is above all the joyful vitality that emanates from these sound spirals - like those Wagnerian waves frozen in midair and suspended in the mineral void of the archives room, or of these Hollywood chase scenes projected in the Cour d’honneur  turned into an ironic Drive-in pour l'oreille. This accumulation of listening points, but also of diverted music (smelling like spices or burned) gives an overview of the artist's imagination attentive to the "globality" and the crossing of energies."

Marc Jacquin, director of Phonurgia Nova

Watch the online release of the art magazine "Semaine" dedicated to the exhibition HERE

Watch photos from the opening night HERE

Audio excerpts of the works

Y avait-il

Terminal X (departures)

Le Hollandais volant (Redemption)

Etude climatique

Le Départ

DJ Hell

Rotors

Compagnie sucrière