Our gallery is pleased to announce Invocation, a new exhibition at the Imre Bak Space by Ábris Gryllus, composer and interdisciplinary artist, whose practice spans the fields of sound, visual media, and research-based artistic methodologies.

Invocation is a multi-channel sound and video installation that builds on Gryllus’s doctoral research into the compositional potentials of data science, data visualization, and sonification. Central to the project is a half-hour-long music piece, conceived and composed by Gryllus in collaboration with Thea Soti (voice) and Matuska Flóra (cello) employing a specially developed system of notation and instruction grounded in hydrological data sonification.

The work takes as its point of departure the meditative observation of water as a “hyperobject” (Timothy Morton) — an entity of planetary scale whose morphologies and transformations exceed immediate human comprehension. Translating these hydrological processes into sound, Gryllus opens a space for collective listening, contemplation, and immersion. The large-scale, three-channel video installation accompanying the composition both transforms the morphologies of the water surface into a fully digital environment and offers insight into the data streams that drive the musical phenomena. The exhibition also includes a unique print created from the project's data sources.