Palais De Tokyo
Echo Delay Reverb
The group exhibition "ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thoughts" offers a history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of media and several specific productions.
"Zone of Nonbeing"
Zone of Nonbeing was one of the few artist commissions produced for Palais de Tokyo. The installation features seven satellite dishes positioned across Haiti, Chicago, Tigray, Sudan, Palestine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mississippi. Each dish sonifies orbital data from NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 satellites as they pass overhead, transforming satellite movement and distance into a seven-channel sound composition that makes the invisible architectures of orbit audible.
Over seventy black ceramic ears, both fragmented and whole, large and small, pepper the white walls—listening devices, witnesses, and memorials. They echo and absorb the transmitted signals, extending the act of listening beyond the technological into the corporeal, the ancestral, and the planetary.
At the center of the installation, a 24-hour live feed of the U.S. Capitol Building sits atop of a baggage x-rage machine, operating as a form of counter-surveillance, urging an international audience to keep their eyes on the shifting landscapes of legislation and power within the United States.
Using a Raspberry Pi, each LED is programmed to respond to real-time METAR weather data—an aviation-based system reporting temperature, wind, and atmospheric conditions from each site. Though the data itself is objective, the climates it describes are not; they have been irreversibly shaped by human violence, political conflict, and extractive economies that blur the boundary between nature and governance.
The revolutionaries represented here are not asking for a seat at anyone else’s table—they are revealing that a new one has already been built, tailored to their histories, geographies, and enduring presence within the atmosphere itself.
