TaThaTa is pleased to present The Air Was Already There, a site-specific sound installation by Ivana Dama.
For The Air Was Already There, Ivana Dama creates a site-specific sound installation in which a pipe carries air moving in rhythms derived from the breathing patterns and lung capacities of different animal species. Using inhalation and exhalation as driving forces, air blowers activate reeds, translating these respiratory rhythms into sound and vibration. Her interest lies not in producing a particular sound effect, but in how air moves through different structures: as an invisible force, a necessary condition of life, and a vibration registered by the body. Detached from the animals whose respiratory patterns inform them, these rhythms suggest an unseen life within the gallery. The pipe becomes both instrument and respiratory passage, reorganizing the architecture around the movement of air and giving sound a sculptural presence.
