Solo exhibition About Certain Soups at fffriedrich, Frankfurt, Germany, 2018

About Certain Soups, combines two modes of temporality, an immersive sound installation and a soup. The exhibition title is taken from the eponymous section in the book The Art of Cu- isine: a compilation of essays, illustrations, recipes and research done by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Maurice Joyant. In Toulouse-Lautrec’s view, every artistic expression should be accompanied by some culinary festivity, itself announced by a drawing, a lithograph, and an elaborate menu. He was as well convinced that cookery is an art. Along with the serving of the soup a new sound piece is being shown in the alte- red exhibition space, which is shrouded in atmospheric light. Parallelogram (2018) is a piece that explores compositional seriality through sine waves, combined with segments of constructed Shepard tones. These were used in diverse ways in music history, ranging from the compositions of Baroque masters to recent electronic dance music. The tones in Parallelogram are consisting of a superposition of sine waves as well but separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch of the tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately, in real, does not get no higher or lower.