"Moving Matters" was made in dialogue with the philosopher Prof. Ilit Ferber, who examines experiences of physical and mental pain and their relationship to empathy. The objects are hybrids inspired by 19th-century hearing aids, which used the acoustics of the funnel and cochlear shapes for analog sound amplification. The work consists of an enlarged Achanai Yehuda flower and a cochlea - the spiral shape inside the inner human ear, responsible for turning audible frequencies into nerve signals. Through the hybrid pairs, Aylon examines the "possibility of evoking empathy between the human and non-human, between man and nature, from the observation of pain as an exposed condition, which requires the expansion of the boundaries of our empathy towards what is not like us" (Dr. Tamar Mayer). The work was supported by the Outset foundation Curated by Dr. Tamar Mayer at the TAU Gallery. Documentation by Daniel hanoch.

Moving Matters

Kozo paper installation, handmade silk paper, brass wires, LED light system, cables and Raspberry PI computer, brass cast, xerox.

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2024