Chang Yung-Ta: Echoes of Silence
For his first solo exhibition in europe, CHANG Yung-Ta invites us to discover the hidden frequencies of reality.
Like a meditative walk, Echoes of Silence offers a contemplative experience of the variations that, though subtle, shape our environment. Measuring tools as much as works of art, CHANG Yung-Ta鈥檚 installations use technology to transform data from natural phenomena into sound and visual compositions.
The exhibition marks a key moment in the artist鈥檚 trajectory, offering a perspective on a practice inherently shaped by randomness and accident. By embracing entropy as a mode of composition, CHANG Yung-Ta allows us to reflect on the invisible and on the use of technology as both a tool for knowledge and a means of creation.
CHANG Yung-Ta encourages us to perceive delicate disturbances: a vibration, a wave spreading, a signal buried in the noise of the world鈥� In this universe of waves and frequencies, silence is never absolute. It is crossed by wandering particles. Inhabited, vibrant, it resonates.
Usually analyzed in scientific laboratories, here data are reinterpreted by generative algorithms that translate the randomness of radiation into sound compositions, transform the flow of a river into artificial landscapes, or turn the trajectory of cosmic rays in a vapor trail. Thus, it is no surprise to find elements such as Geiger-M眉ller counters or hydrochloric acid among the listed materials. Both artworks an instruments, CHANG Yung-Ta鈥檚 installations draw from scientific equipment to reveal what usually escapes us: the pulsations of chance, the whispers of radiation, the silhouette of sound.
While in residence in Japan during the Fukushima nuclear accident, CHANG Yung-Ta developed a fascination for these invisible particles that follow neither a stable rhythm nor a predictable order. Most often harmless, they are omnipresent, originating as much from the Earth鈥檚 crust as from a much more distant source: the cosmos. Radioactive waves thus become the artist鈥檚 privileged collaborators. Acting as a new kind of maestro, they are captured and translated into sound and visual scapes setting the rhythm and triggering vibrations.
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For his first solo exhibition in europe, CHANG Yung-Ta invites us to discover the hidden frequencies of reality.
Like a meditative walk, Echoes of Silence offers a contemplative experience of the variations that, though subtle, shape our environment. Measuring tools as much as works of art, CHANG Yung-Ta鈥檚 installations use technology to transform data from natural phenomena into sound and visual compositions.
The exhibition marks a key moment in the artist鈥檚 trajectory, offering a perspective on a practice inherently shaped by randomness and accident. By embracing entropy as a mode of composition, CHANG Yung-Ta allows us to reflect on the invisible and on the use of technology as both a tool for knowledge and a means of creation.
CHANG Yung-Ta encourages us to perceive delicate disturbances: a vibration, a wave spreading, a signal buried in the noise of the world鈥� In this universe of waves and frequencies, silence is never absolute. It is crossed by wandering particles. Inhabited, vibrant, it resonates.
Usually analyzed in scientific laboratories, here data are reinterpreted by generative algorithms that translate the randomness of radiation into sound compositions, transform the flow of a river into artificial landscapes, or turn the trajectory of cosmic rays in a vapor trail. Thus, it is no surprise to find elements such as Geiger-M眉ller counters or hydrochloric acid among the listed materials. Both artworks an instruments, CHANG Yung-Ta鈥檚 installations draw from scientific equipment to reveal what usually escapes us: the pulsations of chance, the whispers of radiation, the silhouette of sound.
While in residence in Japan during the Fukushima nuclear accident, CHANG Yung-Ta developed a fascination for these invisible particles that follow neither a stable rhythm nor a predictable order. Most often harmless, they are omnipresent, originating as much from the Earth鈥檚 crust as from a much more distant source: the cosmos. Radioactive waves thus become the artist鈥檚 privileged collaborators. Acting as a new kind of maestro, they are captured and translated into sound and visual scapes setting the rhythm and triggering vibrations.
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