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Without Tears<\/em> (2011) a site-specific installation, was realized during Kulturunatta<\/em> in M\u00f6lndal in a former industrial water site where a river passes through an old factory building. Inspired by Werner Herzog\u2019s Fitzcarraldo<\/em>, the work features sculptural loudspeakers modeled on a gramophone horn, transmitting a recorded performance of Dido\u2019s Lament<\/em>. Water functions as both material condition and metaphor, framing sound as a medium of contact and transmission<\/p>\n

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This installation was realized in a former factory space where water passes directly through the building, entering and exiting through the stone walls. The work was conceptually informed by Werner Herzog\u2019s film Fitzcarraldo<\/em> (1982), particularly its portrayal of impossible ambition, physical endurance, and the transport of cultural forms across hostile terrain.<\/p>\n

Drawing on this reference, I developed the work Without Tears. <\/em>Three white sculptural loudspeakers were placed close to the water, partially submerged within the damp interior space. Through these forms, the voice of my daughter, Nathalie, performing Dido\u2019s Lament<\/em> from Henry Purcell\u2019s opera Dido and Aeneas<\/em>, could be heard resonating in the space.<\/p>\n

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I took the form from the old Gramophone-speaker seen in the movie.<\/p>\n

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The work stages the voice as a fragile yet persistent carrier of emotion, memory, and contact, transmitted through water, stone, and air. In this sense, water operates as a medium rather than a backdrop\u2014linking voice, body, and architecture, and extending the sea as a metaphor for connection, transmission, and distance. The installation forms part of a broader investigation into how sound and material structures mediate contact across physical and emotional thresholds, a line of inquiry that later continues in Big Blu<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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