Eighteen small modules are suspended in space, each equipped with a microphone, a piezoelectric loudspeaker and a miniature fan. Slightly swaying,... Read More
Eighteen small modules are suspended in space, each equipped with a microphone, a piezoelectric loudspeaker and a miniature fan. Slightly swaying, they oscillate in unison in a slow, steady motion, as if carried by a common breath. Seemingly autonomous, they are nonetheless intimately linked. When one of them picks up a sound in its environment, it sends an alert signal to its fellows. This message triggers a wave of light and sound that ripples through the entire group.
Each interruption reveals an invisible network of communication, a form of collective vigilance. The effect of this propagation is not merely mechanical: it gives rise to a fluid organization, a form that cannot be summed up in any one of its parts, but is the result of their interrelationship. This distributed intelligence, perceptible in time and space, evokes that of a swarm or superorganism, where memory and reaction reside nowhere in particular, but circulate between bodies.
The work stages this tension between unity and group, between the singularity of each agent and the harmony of the whole. In this interweaving of the living and the technical, Suspensions offers a sensitive reflection on the way in which collective forms emerge, regulate themselves and unfold not through domination, but through resonance.
