Exhibit at NOWHERE NYC

WED-FRI : 11AM - 7PM
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Listening to the Silence

Ray Kunimoto

Even though we can close our eyes, we cannot close our ears.
In other words, whether we like it or not, our ears are always listening to something.

In 1951, John Cage realized that mankind is incapable of experiencing total silence.
Because, even in a perfect anechoic chamber, we can hear the two sounds we inadvertently emit.
The sounds heard there are the sound of the nervous system and the sound of blood circulation.
They are the sounds of life from our own bodies.

Before we are born into this world, our bodies are surrounded with the sound of water and the sound of a pulse - in other words, the sounds within a mother's womb.
However, once we are born into the world and become accustomed to the tumult of society we completely lose the opportunity to turn our ears to the sounds inside ourselves.

Based on the concept of "listening to silence", I reinterpret the fundamental sounds flowing inside human beings, and create a new acoustic space.
While sitting, while drinking tea, while closing your eyes, turn your ears to the "sounds that exist inadvertently".

And, at the end of this day, I hope you turn off the television and music that flows through your home and listen to the sounds that exist inadvertently within yourself.