Wo Bist Du ? (Où es-tu ?) - Sabica Senez

multispeakers sound installation in a phone booth(excerpt)

The visitor enters the phone booth. Once inside, the telephone rings, prompting the visitor to pick up the handset. He can now listen.

He might recognize sentence fragments from a far away, inaccessible interlocutor (who has multiple voices and various accents), a friend, a lover: a lonely, absent interlocutor. Voice fragments—at times cheerful and full of hope, at times panicky and sad. A mad wind and emptiness.

After a few seconds, the sounds not only come from the handset, they emanate from everywhere in the phone booth.

The visitor listens without ever being able to be heard.