Fossil noise of the Big Bang - Laurent Grasso The Horn Perspective - Prix Marcel Duchamp 2008

The Laurent Grasso exhibition transforms the Espace 315 into a place where everything seems possible. With his films, sounds and apparatus, the artist presents a work which challenges everything the spectators hold true. In 1964, two American radio astronomers use the Horn antenna in order to measure the power of the radio waves emitted by our galaxy. They pick up a background noise which they can’t explain and which actually turns out to be the (sonorous) fossil of the Big Bang which gave birth to the