Metutalot: Solo Exhibition - For Radio Receivers and Radio Transmitters

Commissioned for Minshar Gallery, Tel- Aviv.

Radio transmitters hang in Metutalot and Transitions’ exhibition space. Amongst them, pendulum-like antennas swing at a steady tempo between the different sounds.

Radio technology is an “old” analog technology, expressed in “real” radio waves that pass through a space and require an instrument to realize them, implement them and actualize them. The waves are transmitted by different transmitters and collected by radio receivers, which decipher the data and play the sounds that were transmitted.

The movement of the pendulums between two different sounds creates radio disturbances. Similarly, the movement of visitors in the gallery also contributes to the formation of radio disturbances that are heard through the receiver. The sounds that are heard are the transition sounds between two frequencies – a product of disturbance, a sound that exists but its source is hidden.

Text By: Adiya Porat.