What to do with our dreams?, 2024

The conceptual matrix that drives Friedrich Andreoni’s poetics is blended with a lyricism that often draws on spiritual sources. In the sound installation “What to do with our dreams?”, this tension is resolved with the verticality of the stylised ciborium of the Church of San Miniato al Monte, the exact proportions of which are reproduced to scale by the artist, and the horizontality of the sound frequencies that cross the floor. The Gregorian chant recorded in the spaces of the basilica is extended to the point of unrecognizability. The person who voices the liturgical melody is the medium of a divine message, a body that denies itself to become the interpreter of communication with a transcendent elsewhere. Andreoni responds to the inaccessibility of the transcendental dimension with the manipulation of sound, of which he only reproduces the lowest frequencies – thus proposing a subwoofer composition. Pushed to the threshold between audible and inaudible, language collapses, loses its meaning, to reach bodies solely with its own wavelength. By translating the sacred chant into pure vibration, the artist provides the opportunity for sensory communication that eludes linguistic comprehension, to evoke the spectrum of the imperceptible.