The event featuring Fausto Balbo and Carlos Ferrando i Bellés exemplifies the empirical curiosity of pure experimentation. Their “photographic sculptures with infrasound” are shown with images that fuse into their resonant frequencies and are in turn surrounded by them. Onlookers who pause in front of the exhibit are enveloped by their sound while they observe the visual interactions created by means of the video displays. This creates a “new language of seeing and hearing,” involving a dual scenario (image and sound) in which several levels of perception are involved. The installation creates a highly evocative atmosphere, stripped of the most immediate and superficial emotions. An atmosphere of primeval beauty, a space inhabited and contextualized by art, in which the experience is based on synaesthetic materialization, subtly interpreted by our own senses, objectively concrete through its physical presence. Objectivity is provided by the dynamic results that the elements generate in the individual, creating a unique personal story for every observer. The experiential event enhances the awareness of one’s sensorial dimension, and it represents an important opportunity for reflection on the need to expand the theoretical canons of the overall area of aesthetics.

Agostino Berta