In his first ever show in China, exciting French creative Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is set to prove his lifelong belief that just about anything can be music. The artist, who has previously made finches play guitars (kind of) and vacuum cleaners play harmonicas, lands in Shanghai this month with a signature show exploring how humans interact with nature.
After training for a musical career at the Conservatoire National de Nice, Boursier-Mougenot worked for over ten years as a professional composer, before turning his ear to art installations in 1994. His exhibition at Shanghai’s Minsheng Art Museum will feature six large sound installations in combination with moving images and impressive sonic processing. Aiming to capture the diversity of sound, the show will guide the audience through a futuristic world of noise.
Bousier-Mougenot's art operates at the intersection of the visual and auditory spheres. The artist is interested in experimenting with different objects and finding unconventional ways of creating sounds and has his own set of regulations in terms of the creation of sounds, which are not restricted to what is conventionally considered 'music'. Additionally, Bousier-Mougenot is interested, as a composer and visual artist, in expressing auditory effects through visual means and visual effects through auditory means, blending the two senses into one. Look out for all of this at his Shanghai exhibition.