Age of Noise consists of eight horizontal display cases, each measuring 80 × 80 cm, constructed in metal and sealed with tempered-glass surfaces designed to support the visitor’s weight. Set into a raised, blue-carpeted platform with softened edges, the vitrines appear partially buried, as though the artifacts had emerged from beneath the floor.
Inside them, spent cartridge cases, deformed projectiles, metal fragments, and objects collected from shooting-practice sites are arranged on museum-grade fabric according to typologies, repetition, material, and degrees of deformation. The artist approaches these sites as archaeological fields of the present: the residues are collected, cleaned, separated, and classified as evidence of a social practice still in operation.
By allowing visitors to walk directly over the vitrines, the installation reverses the conventional relationship between observer and artifact. What would normally be protected and contemplated from a distance lies beneath the visitor’s body, transforming the exhibition floor into both an archaeological surface and a field of latent violence.
Age of Noise was selected for and presented at the Bienal do Sertão, a Brazilian biennial that brings contemporary artistic projects to cities beyond the country’s established cultural centers, reconsidering the relationships between art, territory, and community.
