Brass, surface transducers, 6-channel sound, 60′ loop, 100×600, 2022

You Do Not Remember Yourself is a 6 meter-long brass sculpture that functions as a musical instrument. The object emits, amplifies and distorts the sounds through its elongated body. The bent surface filters this sonic material, adding natural plate reverbs and diverse resonances.

The piece departs from the idea that the late French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy formulated: “Resonance is an oscillation of the world to myself and of myself to the world via which the two take place.” Thinking of resonance as the absence of sound, or rather a trace that is left once the sound disappears, the instrument acts as a massive resonant surface, retuning the hypnotic sound by the body of the instrument itself.

Co-commissioned by Armenia Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, CTM Festival Berlin, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius.