Too loud for the crickets

The exhibition will be open from June 6 to 24, 2026. Crickets are small creatures whose activity is revealed by a distinctive sound. It can serve as a neutral backdrop to everyday life, or as something insistent and irritating. The same sound can be both soothing and unsettling, evoking associations with home and its loss.

At the center of this documentary story are two young protagonists whose family homes were scarred by war. Embedded in their daily lives, it permeates the way they speak, listen, and remember. The spoken words were transcribed, fragmented, and reassembled into poetic texts, as a trace of an experience that cannot be fully contained. Based on these, the musicians attempted to find a “voice” and translate the experience described in the texts into an auditory language. Images of everyday life are juxtaposed with photographs of two trees growing alone in an empty field. The father of…