Absolventin WiSe 2025/26
The Space I Don’t Remember
This project approaches listening to the memory of places, particularly those that were once experienced intensely. In places where people cannot speak freely or loudly, perhaps we can instead listen to the buildings and spaces that remain, observing silently as they express their own voices in non-human ways. Following this idea, embodied forms of knowledge emerge through breath, gesture, and affect rather than through fixed narratives.
The artistic outcome of this exploration takes the form of an installation with projection, sculpture and directional speakers that reconstructs the echoes of several locations in Belarus with techniques of convolutional reverb. Collected convolution reverbs from these places are understood as living environments. Rather than treating reverberation as a purely technical tool, I approach it as a dynamic element comparable to the breath of a place. Breath, in this sense, has a primal connection to voice, as it precedes and enables every vocal expression. Each captured impulse response functions as a “living capsule” – a memory that does not freeze a moment in time, but reshapes it, becoming a memory of a memory that gradually disappears. To expand the perspective beyond own experience, the author invites people from Belarus to select the locations themselves. They document the process and reflect on their personal reasons for choosing each site. These short videos becoming the collage with personal experiences adding a narrative and relational layer that connects the recorded spaces, individual memories, and current location of the exhibition.
The sculptural part of the installation includes elements such as handmade clay bricks and plexiglass flutes inspired by outdoor wind organs, that allows to listen to vocalised wind, turning invisible air movements into sound.
