Signfall

Our culture is basically visuality-centred, less attention is paid to sound. However, sound has a strong effect, most of the moving images are accompanied by sound. Background music, the noise of machines, ringing, loud speakers, talk – sound is present over all. It influences us deeper than we think, but maybe not so consciously like the visual signals. We are not able to close our ears.

Gyula Várnai’s new installation is a continuation of his sound experiments. He confronts a ’sound fall’ with a slow image movement. On one wall of the gallery he lays a carpet of noises resembling of raining. On the opposite wall there is a projection, letters are falling. The ’movement’ of the two media is mixed in the space, creating a direct experience of the different and still complementary characteristics of our two sensory organs.