During this year’s The Night of Museums, join us for the exciting experience of the Sound Gallery. The NFM space will be filled with various concerts, mini-concerts, and installations located in unusual corners of the venue – including those not normally accessible to you.

If the titular surface is a point of contact between two figures from the same world, which of them represents the reality of our existence? The surface becomes a mirror – in it, the subject sees its objectified reflection. But are we ourselves beneath the surface, yearning to take a breath, or are we merely watching what – because it lies beneath – is inaccessible to us? A point in nothingness, a mysterious nonexistence of being, unites the real with the virtual, the tangible with the potential. This is about acoustic reality, whose space is defined by the intensity of sound, timbre, and the extensity of meaning. To what extent is what our perception suggests to us a truth of nature, and to what extent is it a lie of culture? Spectral transformations of sound, electronic processing, computer-generated sounds and the simultaneous exploration of the instrument’s timbral possibilities – in short, what is visible to us as we look through the surface is no different from what is next to us, it is only a reflection of it.