Exhibition «Listening All Night to the Rain»

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is preparing a new exhibition by the artist John Akomfrah. The project is entitled «Listening All Night to the Rain» and is structured as a series of cinematic and sound installations in which the viewer is literally immersed. In the galleries, real chronicles and artistic scenes alternate, and the narrative does not unfold in a straight line, but circularly, like memories or echoes of past events.

The idea of the exhibition is connected to a poem by the Chinese writer Su Dongpo, composed in exile in the 11th century. In this text, the author reflects on the transience of human life, melancholy and the inner experience of time. Akomfrah takes this mood as a starting point: in his works, time ceases to be mere historical data and becomes a personal, repetitive and layered experience.