Noise to Free the Spirit. Noise to Find Myself , 2024
Exhibition view of the DNSEP diploma, Bosio Pavilion, Monaco
It's a note posted on the door that sets the tone.
Noise to Free the Spirit. Noise to Find Myself; this preamble immediately clarifies the meaning of Tetyana Nahaychuk's research: sound is a matter of emancipation, of connection to oneself and to the world. In her quest for "deep listening," the installation conceived by the artist proceeds through progressive immersion. The first space consists of a sound bath; a toneless, purely technical sound, like a connection awaiting a signal. Its source comes from the ceiling; it could even be emanating from the smoke detector. This "neutral" sound bath is an airlock for activating the ears, designed to sharpen our receptivity; it continues when one enters the second space with a blurred image projected onto the wall, resembling the "snow" on cathode-ray tube screens. One must then pass through a curtain of chains—which inevitably clink as we pass—to reach the final space. At the center, suspended metal panels display imperative or interrogative messages that form a circle around which one gravitates. The space then fills with a sound recorded by the artist at Frankfurt station, which, reworked, is broadcast through four loudspeakers. It creates a soundscape where the rhythm of the railway network, the hubbub of travelers, and the diluted voice of announcements intertwine. A public space where auditory distraction is constant, the station is also a place of transport—in the truest sense—where becoming receptive to the noises that animate it can allow access to other mental spaces. In this sense, the experience of a form of constraint evoked in Tetyana Nahaychuk's practice by chains, the panopticon, or the rhetoric of assertive sentences can be transcended through the active practice of listening. As with the musician and artist Pauline Oliveiros, attention to the vibrations that surround us, to the sounds between sounds, constitutes a commitment, in search of an inner and collective resonance.
Elsa Vattier, text for the DNESP edition of the Pavillon Bosio, Monaco, 2024
YOU HAVE ENOUGH MADNESS
Screen print on aluminum, 70x50 cm, 2024
Series of 10 panels
The viewer is invited to read statements that reflect my own interpretation of the world. I use this form of silent slogan as a direct way to convey my ideas, to engage and question the audience. Through a circular progression, the visitor enters these different mental propositions, which are backlit by LEDs.
Unlike a demonstration, these slogans are not meant to be chanted but rather internalized. In my opinion, human strength lies not in power but in self-transcendence.
