The Sound of Space

In Dan Walwin’s Inconceivable, Inevitable, we only hear the sound of a motored generator, starting, then stopping, on what appears to be a blank screen. The work conveys the inexorability of a time frame, with the viewer’s sense of frustration at the difficulty of seeing-not seeing, and losing ones bearings, that gives the work its disturbing dimension. The outcome, literally dissolving, in order to assert, as Camus does in his writings on the Myth of Sisyphus, of the inevitable absurdity of life made meaningless, where the question ‘why’ arises in our daily route through endless repetition.

Pamela Kember, from text The Sound of Space, accompanying exhibition, For the sake of the image, Jerwood Space, London 2010

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