Double Heart is a pneumatic sound sculpture that gathers the heartbeats of random people and transforms them into a collective landscape of light and sound. Two visitors sit inside the installation, where their pulses are measured, processed, and amplified, revealing the endless variability of these rhythmic patterns. The beats are reproduced in real time through a sound system, and can also be heard outside the installation.
Simultaneously, their shadows are projected onto the sculpture’s surface, synchronised with their pulse rhythms. Since both shadows are only visible from the outside, an interplay emerges between the external audience and those inside the “pneumatic stage”, deepening the sense of shared experience and dynamic interaction.
The installation absorbs frequencies and shapes of human bodies and searches for a possible compatibility between strangers and beloved, questioning the match as atonal empathy or natural attraction.
DOUBLE HEART
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Gau Zuria / Nuit Blanche, Bilbao, Spain, 2023
Curator: Anna Pujol, The City of Bilbao - Lux Festival, Centro Cultural La Térmica, Malaga, Spain, 2023
Curator: Mateo Feijoo -
Design Week Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2022
Curator: Dajana Vujaklija -
Love Exhibition, Digital Art Festival Taipei, Taiwan, 2020
Curator: Yenyi Lee -
Polytech Festival, Moscow, Russia, 2017
Curator: Anna Titovets Intektra
Double Heart is a pneumatic sound sculpture that gathers the heartbeats of random people and transforms them into a collective landscape of light and sound. Two visitors sit inside the installation, where their pulses are measured, processed, and amplified, revealing the endless variability of these rhythmic patterns. The beats are reproduced in real time through a sound system, and can also be heard outside the installation.
Simultaneously, their shadows are projected onto the sculpture’s surface, synchronised with their pulse rhythms. Since both shadows are only visible from the outside, an interplay emerges between the external audience and those inside the “pneumatic stage”, deepening the sense of shared experience and dynamic interaction.
The installation absorbs frequencies and shapes of human bodies and searches for a possible compatibility between strangers and beloved, questioning the match as atonal empathy or natural attraction.
Double Heart is a project that is constantly evolving and has been exhibited on different occasions. The initial project was developed in 2013 together with the media artist Marco Barotti on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Red Never Follows’ Exhibition at Saatchi Gallery’s in London: many thanks for his support.
Concept:
Plastique Fantastique
Plastique Fantastique assistants:
Cora Röschlein, Pihla Pellinen, Sebastian Podesta
Audio and programming assistants:
Markus Wüste, Misha Douglas MacLaren
Special thanks ︎:
Marco Barotti
Special thanks ︎︎:
Senka Radovic, Ksenia Lukina, Dmitry Sokolov, Jens Rösler (Goethe-Institut Taipei), Tsung-Han (DingZing advanced materials), Martín Moniche Ferrer, Luis Díaz González.