Points of Entry
A sound installation by Oscar Atanga
from 05. October until 19. October, daily at 3 pm and 6 pm
We come like crickets by dawn,
sometimes alone, yet rubbing our wings together
to stridulate and expand
delaying through the lines
the following movement
lines of expression as the mirror of the community’s affections,
of its voices
different voices gather to root, yet keep moving
delaying
Oscar Atanga’s sound piece, Points of Entry, engages in dialogue with Raquel van Haver’s mural and the streets it portrays. By existing with and within Wedding—a neighborhood shaped by migration, labor, and resistance—the gallery often stands as a distant space, perceived as disconnected from its daily rhythms. This piece intends to reshape this separation, amplifying the blur between these walls and the lives moving through them. Opening up a granular possibility, where the body can feel the particles that surround it daily, along with an extra layer—sometimes musical, sometimes dreamy, but always a reminder.
Sounds are not meant to be perceived as an escape or to be contained, cancelling their affections, but to spill over, stretch, and refold into the realities they come from, echoing the voices they’ve carried for generations—the ones arriving, departing, and returning. Influenced by the Fluxus movement, musique concrète and Hiroshi Yoshimura’s language, this work is composed of the sounds that sustain the environment—those sonic constants that we integrate as our own, no longer noticing when they enter or fade. Oscar Atanga’s exploration of sonic architecture is also reflected here. He challenges Western spatial perspectives through sound by echoing Raquel’s work and by revisiting African architectural and technological concepts, their various languages, and physical representations.
Points of Entry recalls Dub’s delayed temporal structure, where time lingers, creating rhythms that shift with every passing wind. Drawing from the uprooted, the ancestral drums that have woven themselves into the Kiez, this listening proposes a shared pulse of the neighborhood, reflecting individuals and communities looking to root themselves here anew. Atanga’s sound modulation and synthesis amplify the mural’s dimensions of this breathing organism, inviting the neighborhood’s familiar vibrations to take over even more, creating a space to deepen presence in, and attention to, what is with us, not as distant echoes.
Text by Irene Trejo
Sound editing, mixing and installation – Jacopo Biffi
Installation technical management – Augusto Gerardi Rousset and Taiga Trigo
