ANRI SALA

b. 1974

“What interests me is the way sound can be impregnated by reality.“

The music speaks to history and memory, bringing the viewer’s past, present and future into a single filmic experience.

Anri Sala uses video installation, sculpture, photography, performance and movie scores to explore non-verbal modes of expression through narratives or ideas. His work opens to a multiplicity of perspectives and interpretations by distancing the viewer from a “logical,” direct or language-based understanding. This “continuous present” found in Sala’s work has the effect of grounding the audience in a specific moment rather than projecting them into the illusion of what they see. His videos are presented in a wide range of immersive spaces that must be experienced with the whole body: modified environments with careful lighting and sound design that stimulate a visceral experience of the surrounding architecture. His work allows us to reconsider the relationship of our own space and time to the location and historical moment depicted in the films.