Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 2025

Title: Sonic Investigations
Commissioner: Kultur l lx – Arts Council Luxembourg, LUCA – Luxembourg Center for Architecture
Curators: Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch, Alice Loumeau
Exhibitors: Valentin Bansac, Ludwig Berger, Anthea Caddy, Mike Fritsch, Alice Loumeau, Peter Szendy

The Pavilion is an immersive, joyful, and radical invitation to shift focus from the visual to the sonic. In our image-saturated contemporary society, sight often eclipses other senses, which are vital to understanding the unseen dynamics of our sensory relationship with environments. Inspired by John Cage’s silent composition 4’33”, “Sonic Investigations” invites us to close our eyes and actively listen. As a counter-project to the hegemony of images, the act of listening opens up new possibilities for exploring both built and natural environments, shifting our attention towards giving voice to more-than-human agencies.

Through attentive listening and field recordings that capture a range of sounds from diverse environments, “Sonic Investigations” creates a new, uncanny, and embodied experience of space, emphasising the value of sensory approaches in spatial practices.