Entre l’œil et l’oreille (Between The Eye and The Ear). Baudouin Oosterlynck

The museum invites sound artist Baudouin Oosterlynck to take over the museum's atrium to explore the special acoustic features of this unique venue, originally designed by Victor Horta to encourage people to look at the works.

How can hearing renew our relationship with  the museum's spaces and the works on display? Like "À pro-peau n°2", which is housed in the large central hall, the installations by Baudouin Oosterlynck are as much for the eye as for the ear. A skilled manufacturer of sound sculptures of all kinds, the artist also provides a whole range of listening instruments to help stimulate the viewer and listener's senses in an intimate way. Visitors will be as much astonished by the strangeness of the objects in their hands as by the incredible range of sounds they discover.

Baudouin Oosterlynck is internationally recognised as one of the pioneers of sound art, weaving between experimental music and the visual arts. Since the 1970s, he has been seeking to escape from the hustle and bustle of life to reveal vibrations, frequencies or reverberations that are buried or were previously ignored. Alongside this work, Baudouin Oosterlynck is also a big collector of glasses from all eras. Showcased in the exhibition, alongside astonishing acoustic prostheses, they accentuate the links forged in the exhibition between the visual and the aural to broaden our sensory perception of the world.