Adrien Lefebvre “TELLURIS” exhibition

At the invitation of the Frac Normandie, Adrien Lefebvre has created TELLURIS, a sound installation that redefines our perception of the landscape. Suspended in the exhibition space, this architecture made up of dozens of massive bamboos and raw hemp ropes creates a veritable stratigraphic cross-section of the earth.
Far from a bucolic vision of nature, the artist immerses himself in the "Infra-Earth". He takes invisible sound materials from his own terrain, which he interprets and amplifies. Wandering around this vibrating mass, viewers are invited to listen physically: they can immerse themselves in the power of infrasound, concentrate on the delicacy of localised micro-sounds or, on the contrary, mentally reconstruct a global landscape. Somewhere between the labour of farming and the aesthetics of tension, TELLURIS transforms plants into mineral matter and sound, making the organic depth of the present tangible.
Adrien Lefebvre questions the perception of space through the prism of sound. Timbre, spectrum and intensity become creative materials in their own right, playing with scale and redefining the viewer's place within the work.
At the same time, the artist gleans sound materials in the course of his peregrinations. Whether taken from urban or rural environments, these samples feed into a sound library that then irrigates his installations and live performances.

• Free for all