Listening Bodies consists of two ceramic sculptures built from clusters of organically shaped tubes. The tubes rise upwards from a shared body, creating open structures that seem to reach simultaneously towards the sky and the ground.
Their forms suggest a sensing body. The openings at the top are not simply decorative: they give the sculptures a sense of permeability, as if the outside world could enter through them. Air, sound, light and movement become part of the work.
The sculptures are solidly constructed, but their clustered forms and thin openings also give them a certain fragility. They appear to be bodies that are continuously affected by their surroundings rather than objects existing independently from them.
Listening Bodies shifts the focus from looking at a sculpture to sensing one's relation to it. It relates to bodies that do not just observe their environment, but register and respond to it.