L’intruso is an artist or curator invited to each Risonanza to engage in dialogue with the exhibitions and collections of GAM. This figure is meant to disrupt the museum’s reassuring path, surprising visitors with unexpected displays and offering unforeseen perspectives.
Curators and sound artists Chiara Lee and freddie Murphy are the intruders of this Risonanza, transforming the museum’s stairwells into a musical instrument.
The intrusive intervention, in collaboration with MAO – Museum of Asian Art, takes shape as an immersive installation based on sound sources provided by artist Aldana Duoraan. Evoking the aesthetics of minimalist modular experiments, Duoraan explores the Sakha cosmology of the tripartition of the soul through the khomus (a type of jaw harp). In this tradition, the human soul is composed of three elements: Salgyn Kut (Spirit of the Air), Lye Kut (Mother’s Soul), and Buor Kut (Spirit of the Earth), which separate and reunite in a continuous cycle of transition between physical, symbolic, and spiritual worlds.
The work, strategically placed and spatialized along the stairs, explores the liminal dimension of the space—an intermediate realm between physical and symbolic levels, where movement becomes a metaphor for transition between worlds. Three speakers distribute the sounds of the tripartite soul, allowing visitors to perceive the interaction between its elements, transforming the GAM stairwell into a vast, imaginative musical instrument, named Scalémbalo.
Activated at irregular intervals, the work creates a fortuitous and unpredictable interaction, thus fostering active listening and a reflection on the multiplicity of being. It is an invitation to traverse a space where, in the transition between floors/levels, one symbolically crosses the fluid and multifaceted spheres of human experience.
Setup by VI.MA
