The Aural Storm
curated by: Mia Milgrom, Natálie Kubíková
artists: Last Oblivion (Tina Damgaard, Elena Biner)
performers: Tina Damgaard, Elena Biner, Lenka Bondorová, Aron Lodi, Esther Babulik
sisual Effects: Martin Carlsson
soundscape: Offermose
2022
Penumbra is a remote world of shadows, swallowing its inhabitants into a circular dream perpetuated by an uncontrollable force. Layer by layer it unfolds; its material memory of the last storm surfaces. Their ambivalence towards incoming disturbances is what brings us closer to understanding the inner workings of this fictional society. Shaped by the continual threat of solar winds, they ritually await the complete disruption of magnetic fields. Wholly atemporal, the pendular movement becomes a calming reassurance of presence despite the looming decay.
The Aural Storm is thematically permeated by different materials connected to corrosion. Transformed, the space consumes the visitors, inviting them to share and change this incandescent world's physical environment. Evoking "ambiguous utopias" (a term coined by American sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin), the exhibition explores the suffocating yet serene lives in which disaster and salvation are blurred into one. In the rooms of Penumbra, which are overgrown with rust, the inhabitant's fey stories continually resist conformity.