Noises and moments of silence made by men and machines puncture the air as the public interacts with the many works in this show. For both silence and sounds, from different regions and latitudes, resound in the collective memory forged over time by the history of mankind. This is work as production, as the possibility of development, an deeply ennobling activity. Yet something wraithlike clouds this concept… Sounds and silence are also intimately associated with frustrated dreams and initiatives that came to naught, struggles and strife, reality and fiction, riven with doubt both individually and collectively. In this way, presence and absence form a dialogue captured on video, in installations and photos. The pieces on show reinforce familiar discourses, or a view of things laden with irony, revisiting stories and proposing other approaches to memories of work, those submitted by the visitors of these tunnels.
