“What Eulàlia Garcia Valls presents here is, in one sense,
a near-invisible, ever-accumulating sculpture. Its primary
material is sound, and you are part of it: an unobtrusive
arrangement of microphones records ambient events in the room even as her speakers are playing. What is
playing, meanwhile, is something like a stack of days. The
microphones document the presence of visitors while the
exhibition is open, and every 24 hours an overdubbed layer
will be added to the whole, such that the final recording is
a three-week mille-feuille of chancy sonic incidents. What
you hear is what happened here at the same time yesterday,
and – a certain distance into the piece – on the yesterdays
before.”2
2 Martin Herbert’s excerpt for the catalog of the exhibition ‘Once a Closed
Guarded Secret’.
Photographs by Gert Jan van Rooij
Photograph by Gert Jan van Rooij
Photograph by Franziska Mueller Schmidt