About this Event
BABEL REBUILT
London / Berlin dual-City Exhibition
The word “Babel” signifies both confusion and a gateway. According to legend, humanity once attempted to build a tower that could reach the heavens. This ambition collapsed when language fractured, scattering people across the earth and revealing the limits of communication.
The fall of the Tower of Babel represents a timeless human dilemma:
our desire to understand one another, the boundaries of language ,and the coexistence of unity and difference.
Conceptual Background
In 2001, artist Cildo Meireles revisited this myth through Babel, an installation composed of hundreds of radios broadcasting overlapping voices and languages, exhibited at Tate Modern. The work transforms language into noise — layered, unstable, and impossible to fully decipher.
Babel Rebuilt takes this legacy as a point of departure.
When language fails, how else might we communicate?
Rather than seeking clarity or resolution, the exhibition explores alternative modes of expression that operate through the senses, the body, and spatial experience.
Exhibition Approach
The exhibition invites audiences to encounter works that speak beyond spoken language — through sound, image, material, atmosphere, and presence. Each city hosts a distinct yet interconnected exhibition, responding to the same conceptual framework from different spatial and cultural contexts.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
art'otel London Hoxton, 1-3 Rivington Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
