Bérengère de Tarlé

Bérengère de Tarlé was born in 1972 in Sydney (AU), she lives and works in Paris (FR)
Bérengère de Tarlé works with sound. She places her microphones in a subway, a street, a church, by a window, like a filmmaker recording miles of rushes, only to let them settle, edit, distort—in short, to choose. After hours of recording, she leaves us here with 26 minutes of tape.
Bérengère de Tarlé could have chosen to have us listen to these sound recordings through headphones mounted on the wall. Ideally, there would have been an acoustic chamber, so finely crafted are the sounds. Alas, headphones are a constraint that could hinder the visitor’s wandering, while the chamber would be too precious a setting.
In the public space of an art centre, an architecture in the form of a pavilion, at its heart, imposes upon the visitor an exercise in sustained attention, all the more so because extraneous sounds abound here. As other artists stimulate the retina, she engages the hammer and anvil.