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Soundscape
Exhibition Mapping the unstable in Acentricspace, Zhujiajiao, China, November 2025
90x90x300cm
Steel, iron rust, concrete, water, wax
Soundscape is an installation made from construction materials and water, an element inherent to the city of Zhujiajiao.
It begins with one thing: gravity acts as a principle of form, the pull of the Earth and the natural attraction that affects every body.
Here, she tries to control the continuous flow of water and explores its temporality: slowing down the fall, producing a rhythm.
Ophélie works through a minimalist process.
Water arrives, a drop falls, disappears—yet the movement continues, and a cycle restarts. Time passes, the container empties, and the performance comes to an end. She tries to feel that there is no end, because of the tiny quantity of water.
She seeks the point of contact where the flow is interrupted: there, movement stops, matter transforms, and drifts toward disappearance. It’s this frequency this moment of interference—she aims to capture.
Her work relies on autonomous, repetitive mechanisms. Repetition produces a cycle; the cycle generates exhaustion. Matter rusts, saturates, engorges; the liquid is spent.
Her work unfolds as a cycle: each ending opens into a beginning.
She investigates the boundaries between the living and the inert, between movement and its capture, between the human and the elemental.
Her work exists in these liminal spaces where matter transforms.
And what if movement became sound?
