At The Threshold

Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.
“Sophie Calle”
People in urban cities, are immersed in a universe of small boxes on top of each other as buildings. A universe of walls, doors, and windows. But also, a universe of intercoms and doorbells in different forms, colors, and shapes, which seem to be the portal from the vastness of outside to the mystery of inside and what moves behind those walls, doors, and windows. All we are left out with are piles and piles of ever-changing name tags and buttons assigned to them. As if the city architecture bares its own interactive soundwalk. During the Covid-19 quarantine, on the peak of separation of in and out, the artist started to walk around her resident city, follow the name tags, capture them, ring the doorbells, and record the short dialogs happening at that specific moment. Capture the sound of the moment where site and space, in and out, interfere and the mystery on the other side of the portal takes an actual shape only aurally and leaves the visuality of it to the imagination. For Rockenhausen festival, a wooden gate was built with an outdoor speaker hidden in one of the sides. The photos would cover the gate. The gate would be positioned on the way from the concert halls to the next exhibition location for the audience to pass through and experience the moment while being immersed in the piles of name tags and intercoms and doorbells.