Sound installation
Brass, steel cables, contact microphones, loudspeakers, Arve/Rhône water (water, polychlorinated biphenyls, tillite, calcite, escherichia coli, fluorine, mercury/silver, tears, bacillariophyta, urine, guano, phosphorus, dinoflagellata, perfluorooctanoic acid, sweat, polychlorinated biphenyls, adrenaline, merycism)
2024
Exhibition views in Espace 3353, in Courants Soniques, duo show with Emilie Moor

Rivières Revers is a sound installation that conceived the exhibition space as a ruin –a remnant of the last Ice Age– referring to the past stories of Carouge. Built on and around moraines, the sediments deposited by melting ice over thousands of years, the city is linked to the Rhône glacier and the Mer de Glace by 332 kilometres of waterways. From their sources, the Arve and Rhône rivers flow through meadows, lakes, factories, towns, bodies, crops and roads.

The installation brings these fragmented stories together through the sound of melting ice. Following this performative moment, the audience is invited to reconstruct the scenario of a past action and its almost imperceptible but still ongoing evolution. How can we listen to these shifting traces? How do we connect with the invisible? Can you hear the songs?