This stone is limestone–a sedimentary rock formed from ancient marine organisms. Pressed by time, they have fossilized into the very material we now use to build cities, facades, and monu-ments. Every stone has a different composition and a different acoustic memory. A mixture of water and citric acid falls onto its surface. And when the matter begins to dissolve–the sound begins. What you hear is the stone itself–speaking, emitting its acoustic memory. This installation doesn’t seek spectacle but silence–the kind of silence in which change can be heard. Here, disintegration is not the end, but a sign of life. Matter doesn’t disappear–it transforms. This is the voice of the stone. It speaks. It flows. Even the things we believe to be most stable and unchanging are never truly fixed. They, too, are fluid. Everything is..
Nevena Vasileva is a multidisciplinary artist with a Master’s in Digital Arts. She explores sound, touch, and other non-visual senses–chosen for their intuitive, visceral ability to speak deeper truths than sight alone. Her work questions what we take for granted, engaging with social and political themes by examining how narratives are formed, polarized, and internalized through sensory experience.
