The exhibition Singing as numerous as space, measureless as noon at the Museum of Fine Arts, Liberec in Czech is a group exhibition of Czech-Norwegian art on disappearing birds focuses on fascination with the world of birds, natural sounds and scientific research. The exhibition approaches birds as a key phenomenon that reflects our interconnectedness with nature and seeks new ways to listen, perceive and relate to our surroundings.
The focal point of this exhibition is the union of art, science and philosophy through inspiration by the work of the Czech artist Olga Karlíková, who has been studying the sounds and movements of the natural world in detail since the sixties. Sama Karlíková, known not only for her drawings inspired by birdsong, captured the sound tracks of nature in a way similar to seismographic recordings, where space and time are not abstract categories, but tangible and infinite dimensions of meditation and the timelapse of nature. The name of the exhibition refers to poems by the poet Emily Dickinson, who saw birds not only as creatures representing freedom, but also as ephemeral species.
Ahoo Ahoo from The Conference of the Birds is represented with the video, I the Duck suit and an eider duck house.
The exhibition has published an extensive collection of texts, “Early Winter in Autumn”, from exhibiting authors and other theorists.
The exhibition is curated by Tea Záchová.
