A real moment of doubt. While crossing this ‘forest’ of everyday objects, I really had the impression to walk in a tropical forest, with its monkeys, its parakeets, its rivers... but no. Listening carefully to each sound, it became clear that none of them came from the tropics. All of them came from daily objects, as the ones displayed here. But the carefully thought-out assembly of the artists was made to give us the illusion of tropical sounds. It was an excellent demonstration for me: our brain chooses a context to impose its point of view. Here it chooses the auditory information. Visual information is no longer relevant. It is frenetically searching deep in memory. It thus recomposes its own world and plays the orchestral conductor (unnoticed by us). I think that's how our brain deals with contemporary art.
Rainforest V (variation 4), David Tudor & Composers Inside Electronics (John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein), 1973-2017.
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France. 2019.