Boden – Ein Hertz / Ground – One Hertz

Artist Bogomir Ecker is particularly interested in the limits of visual and acoustic perception. This sculpture appears to be a sort of device to help you hear sounds from within the earth. Painted entirely in red, a vertical funnel sits atop a cube. They are mounted on a metal grating that suggests that there is a hole in the ground beneath it.
The signal red sculpture points to the excavated earth like an exclamation mark. Simultaneously, it could also serve as horn to amplify and make rising sounds audible. However, as the title suggests, sounds from the ground (if any) would be impossible for us to perceive, since the threshold of our hearing only goes as low as 20 hertz.
It is up to the viewer’s imagination to decide whether the presence of the pit and sculpture can bring about a change in perception.