The Sound of Anthropocene

Pierre Ajavon (France) – Lost Garden, 2018, 4:16
“In the age we live in, we must confront the mistakes we have made in our relationship with nature, and we cannot predict what tomorrow might bring.
This uncanny experience is also the source of the suspense dominating Pierre Ajavon’s film.
The circular form at first reminiscent of the anthropocentric practices of surveillance/government temporarily leaves the sense of control to the spectator.
But as it slowly transforms into the image of the planet combined with the auditory elements such as the gong, the heartbeat and the Geiger counter, we realize that
our concerns for the future are not groundless”.
Ipek Yeginsu (curator of “Co-Generation exhibition / Mine Sanat Gallery, Istanbul //Turkey, 2022).

Pierre Ajavon
(b. 1966, Paris) is a visual artist, composer & musician. He lives and works in Paris (France).
Ajavon studied sociology and ethnomusicology with a particular focus on psychedelic culture, and he embraced video art as his main medium as it allowed
him to combine image with sound.
His works appeared at art institutions such as Fondazione Ragghianti (Italy), Royal Scottish Academy (Scotland) as well as events like Cairotronica (Egypt) or MADATAC (Spain).
Pierre Ajavon is also a musician and composer, and references to psychoanalysis and surrealism as well as the study of the relationship between pop imagery and
sound constitute the backbone of his artistic practice.