Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork — Poems of Electronic Air
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Installation view, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Solutions to Common Noise Problems, François Ghebaly, New York, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and François Ghebaly Gallery. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
At the Carpenter Center, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork fills Le Corbusier’s concrete spaces with sonic environments that blur architecture, clothing, and performance. Her “sound blanket” sculptures warp acoustics as much as they reference oversized coats; her clusters of wool and fiberglass columns mimic—and soften—the building’s Brutalist bones. In the central gallery, a platform of black river stones crunches underfoot, feeding amplified sound back into the room. Outdoors, an inflatable installation merges the hum of blowers with a new musical composition. Poems of Electronic Air reminds us that listening is physical, and architecture is never silent.
