Pressure of Being Heard (2025)

Expanded video installation (diagrammatic print, still image, projected ambient light, single-channel video without sound)

With the promise of public address, the loudspeaker gave rise to new borders of domination and control. At the moment of post-unboxing, the dissected body of an Ultimate 110dB portable speaker unfolds as an apparatus for amplification, reimagined as an anatomical and political body.

Rooted in the evolution of loudspeaker technologies, where ever-increasing Sound Pressure Levels (SPL) have shaped both markets and collective modes of listening, Pressure of Being Heard reflects on a culture of over-amplification.

By shifting and manipulating the lens onto this totem of excess, the work remains suspended between the expectation of being heard, the pleasure of sonic possession, and the fragile thresholds of manifestation, protest, and paralysis.

Part of The Exhibition Remnants at Tehran Contemporary Sounds festival, Silent Green Betonhalle, Berlin

Photo Credits: Kyle Witzen, Maryam Katan