The element of muting is the connecting thread among the six artists featured in the exhibition Sound Fossils. Sound serves as a central and shared raw material in the works presented. The act of silencing—and the absence of sound—redirects attention to various visual manifestations. Sight becomes a stand-in for sound, leaving it imagined rather than heard. The “sound fossils” presented in the exhibition seek to explore the relationship between the abstract and the tangible, between presence and absence, and the link between the auditory and the visual.

Sound Fossils is a group exhibition that gathers fragments from the bodies of work of six artists who each, in their own way, engage with sound as raw material.

The clear point of convergence among the works—and the element that binds them—is silence. The participating artists use photography, installation, and drawing, while the original sound remains absent. The muting of sound sharpens the visual components of the works, transforming sight into a suggestion or mediator of sound, and leaving the auditory element purely imagined.

Some of the works express the absence of sound through the artistic act itself—an act that “cuts” and freezes the subject and the sound in a single moment. Others distance themselves from conventional sound practices through abstraction—and it is precisely these works that return to the origins of sound: the mark, the line, the shape.

In some works, the visual’s potential for movement—often characterized by repetition that creates rhythm—compensates for the loss of sound. In others, even movement is denied. This creates a constant sensation of unrealized potential, producing a restrained tension that never reaches resolution.

The act of muting—almost violent in nature—generates these plastic, fossil-like forms: inert, yet born of life. Though functionally silent, they carry story and knowledge.

The sound fossils in this exhibition aim to examine the ties between the world of sound and that of image and matter—to explore how absence can be felt through visual means, and how that abstract world of sound may find form, presence, and expression through image.