The Whisperers
The Whisperers conceived by Tarek Atoui is a series of listening devices composed of different materials that conduct and amplify sound in multi-sensory ways. These assemblages bring together plastic, wood, brass, water, bronze, glass and stone, experimenting with each material acoustic properties and the unique ways they transmit and reflect sound. Through The Whisperers, Atoui invites the visitor to plug-in their own music and experience it in fresh and innovative ways, they offer a medium for discovery and unpredictable, undoing the familiar and known.
Tarek Atoui has created a new series of The Whisperers in 2021 influenced and inspired by five workshop sessions that took place between November 2020 and June 2021 in a kindergarten classroom, l'École alsacienne in Paris, with 5-year-old students.
- Places
- Dublin · AlUla · Zurich · Austin · New York · Paris
- Material
- plastic · wood · brass · water · bronze · glass · stone
Where & when
7 presentations
- 2026Sunflowers / Souffle Continusolo · IMMA — Irish Museum of Modern Art — Dublin, Ireland
- 2026Phonolitessolo · AlWarsha — AlUla, Saudi Arabia
- 2025Bayt Al Hamssolo · AlWarsha — AlUla, Saudi Arabia
- 2023The Whispererssolo · Luma Westbau — Zurich, Switzerland
- 2022The Whispererssolo · The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue — Austin, USA
- 2022The Whispererssolo · The FLAG Art Foundation — New York, USA
- 2021The Whispererssolo · Galerie Chantal Crousel — Paris, France
Gallery
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Press
- Sculpture · interviewSonic Objects: A Conversation with Tarek Atoui
- Galerie Chantal Crousel · ReferenceThe Whisperers — exhibition publication
- IMMA — Irish Museum of Modern Art · ReferenceSunflowers / Souffle Continu — IMMA — Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2026
- e-flux · ArticleThe Whisperers and The Wave — exhibition review — The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue, 2022
- The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue · ReferenceThe Whisperers — The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue, 2022
- Galerie Chantal Crousel · ReferenceThe Whisperers — Galerie Chantal Crousel, 2021