PARACUSIA: REMIX

KEWENIG, Berlin

11 Nov 2022 – 14 Jan 2023

Sound in art, whether in its presence or in its absence, whether as an immersive component, within earshot during beholding or just in imagination – the investigation of this phenomenon was already a guiding idea of the exhibition Paracusia: Of Sounds & Visions, curated by David Dorrell for KEWENIG. With Paracusia: Remix, a modified approach to this theme will now be made: Through a new arrangement of artistic positions, surprising references are created anew and dialogues are made possible, which thereby focus on aspects of cultural history and perception that are as different as the artworks themselves.

Threaded Together by Memory Sounds (2022) by Indian artist Astha Butail is a work that very quietly integrates itself into the ensemble of this exhibition. A series of wooden flutes that were never usable as such, threaded in two frames, refer, as the title suggests, to memory. Here, the transmission of memories, of legends and myths through different cultural techniques, is thematised, also through music, which is heard here purely visually.