Hsiang Lin Wang

WANG Hsiang Lin’s sound installation Fermata II — resonates intermittently throughout the museum’s central garden — like memory, it is never complete. Silence and absence shape this experience, as if an echo, close yet unreachable.

The work is inspired by Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal — a piece that addresses “empathy,” yet was created by an author holding contradictory stances. Its internal tension resonates with a world increasingly divided in the aftermath of the pandemic, highlighting the gap between what is heard and what is overlooked. 

The artist integrates street music of varying pitches and tonalities with recordings of a symphony orchestra, allowing these heterogeneous sounds to meet and enabling non-mainstream melodies and orchestral passages to engage in dialogue. This creates a multi-layered polyphonic soundscape: one voice is visible within the system, while another is heard only in the fluid environment. Through this interplay, the audience is invited to reconsider, within this ever-changing world, how to listen to one another amidst difference.

B2, No.31