In 2011, I was invited to participate in Tombola Parksalon, an annual outdoor exhibition in Azalea Park, Gothenburg, where invited artists realize site-specific works in a public landscape. For the event, I created an acoustic outdoor sculpture titled Breakfast, Said Victorine with Amazement.
The work takes the form of a sounding “taffel” sculpture—an arrangement of suspended cups and vessels connected through a spatial structure, where brittle and resonant timbres interact and converse around an implied table. Activated by wind, movement, and proximity, the sculpture foregrounds listening as a social and spatial practice.
The title refers to Victorine Meurent, the woman depicted in Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, invoking both the historical picnic scene and its transposition into a contemporary auditory setting. By relocating the shared meal from a visual to a sonic domain, the work explores conviviality, fragility, and exchange through sound rather than image.
Here how it sounded in my studio before it was put outside in the park.