Pipeless (2026)
Solo exhibition
CANTINA, Aarhus (DK)

The mathematician Charles Babbage writes in 1837 that what is set in motion in the air, theoretically never disappears. The sound waves emerging from a spoken word will quickly turn quiet, but though we cannot hear them they will continue to “perambulate the earth and ocean's surface” and effect their future surroundings. According to Babbage, the air is a vast library, where everything that has been said and done is kept in the particles of the air.

The exhibition Pipeless takes its point of departure from this very thought. In the room we hear the sound of an organ, but the organ pipes, which the sound originally came from, is absent. The tones come from an intangible place in the room. We hear their slow appearing and disappearing, while they blend with a hum from the radiator, sound of water running through the drain, and a quiet noise from the road outside.

The exhibition space stands as a apparently empty shell, where its own elements stand out and create the conditions for an inner, private listening space, where images and movements can emerge. Hereby the the exhibition attempts to let the sound make connections between the inner and the outer. Between the outer three-dimensional space, the surrounding, enveloping world, and the inner non-dimensional space, where thoughts and dreams takes shape.