This autumn, Marguerite Humeau and Marina Rheingantz will participate in the 15th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, marking the Biennale's 30th anniversary.
Rheingantz and Humeau join 72 artists from 30 countries in an exhibition titled ‘Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century’.
The Biennale seeks to map the complexities of the contemporary world, addressing themes such as conflict, migration, and climate change through a blend of visual and musical forms. ‘Pansori’, rooted in the Korean musical genre, becomes an operatic exploration of the spaces we inhabit, connecting diverse struggles and life forms in a shared dialogue.
As part of the group exhibition, ‘Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century’, Marguerite presents
*stirs (2024), a multimedia installation in which artist orchestrates a physical encounter with the origins of life.
The installation centres around a ghostly character resembling the sedimentary formations of stromatolites, microbial reefs formed by cyanobacteria, one of Earth’s earliest life-forms, that is carrying a vessel containing a live microbial ancient landscape.
A story of the origins of life, performed by the voice and drum of former Leenalchi band member Song Hee and influenced in real-time by the live microbial community is echoing through hand-blown glass bubbles effervescing from the vessel.
