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The Longest Distance(2018)
Sound installation The Longest Distance is a large sound installation, consisting of loudspeakers hidden behind a large white canvas. You can hear two very different sounds: the faint cosmic background radiation left over from the birth of the universe 13.8 billion years ago and the heartbeat of an unborn baby.The heartbeat represents what is closest - an intimate rhythm inside a human body within a human body - while the cosmic background radiation represents what is farthest away.
As you stand before the canvas, the heartbeat seems to come from a single point, while the cosmic sound surrounds you, filling the room.
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