WTF Gallery imagines a silent world
WTF Café & Gallery is holding “85-140 dB”, an exhibition of contemporary sound and media installation works about imaginary silence from today until May 22.
On display are a selection of works by five artists who explore the concept of how vibration-induced energy travels through the transmission medium to the brain in terms of both physiology and psychology, and is possibly restricted or tackled by various forms of exposure and communication by individuals or society as a whole.
Albrecht Pischel brings audiences to a state of delusion between hearing and visual perception. His work allows the audience to interrogate the outcome of surveillance systems, which creates restrictions in everyday life that visualisation alone cannot properly represent.
Arnont Nongyao presents a space of variation occurring through time via his experiments with intervention in the quality of audio transmission, while Paphonsak La-or’s painting implies hearing limitations through the overlap between past and present, as well as the interaction of people of different status.
The work of Pisitakun Kuntalang takes us across the trap of our complicated and fatigued perception of reality through the “virtual” world, to query the sense of existence, and having fleeing strategy from a society full of suppression.
Sompot Chidgasornpongse, meanwhile, comes up with the familiar image we’ve seen everyday for a long time. He also repetitively uses Gymnopédie No.1 in his work, in order to deliberately create a familiarity among the senses.
WTF Cafe & Gallery is on Sukhumvit 51 and is open Tuesday to Sunday, 4-10pm.