Edouard Malingue Gallery is delighted to present Anechoic Pavilion, the highly-anticipated installation by contemporary French artist Laurent Grasso. A one-room cabin constructed as a place for meditation and observation of surroundings, Anechoic Pavilion will be installed on the rooftop of Central Ferry Pier 4 in Hong Kong, facing Victoria Harbour.

An iconic piece, Anechoic Pavilion (‘anechoic’ means ‘having a low degree of reverberation of sound’ or ‘echo-free’) will allow visitors to retreat from hectic city life and experience a unique sensation of inner exploration. Visitors will thus embark on a journey taking them from the heart of Hong Kong, the most vibrant city in the world, to the very margins of reality and fiction.

Anechoic Pavilion is a meditation room that can be placed in a variety of environments: in the jungle, by the sea, on the roof of a building, in gardens, so that the person inside can both meditate and regain an awareness of their surroundings by immersing themselves in the view in front of them. The pavilion is designed like a camera obscura, mimicking the way in which old cameras projected images onto a screen.

Laurent Grasso’s work often investigates the machines and systems that mediate our modern era. He uses these mechanisms, as well as the history of art, techniques, philosophy and cinema, to create unusual perspectives. This kind of consideration and play on common experience and knowledge, aiming to enlarge or radically change points of view, is what attracted Edouard Malingue to Grasso’s work. Both gallerist and artist alike are reaching for a new approach for our times, be it prospectively or retrospectively.

Laurent Grasso is also currently holding a solo show entitled Uraniborg, at the Jeu de Paume, Paris. This constitutes the artist’s most important solo exhibition to date and will subsequently travel to the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada