24/09/2026
OPENING TOMORROW: 'Other. Absence and Making Public' by artist-researcher Florence To (.to)
📅 25 Sept - 7 Nov �
📍 Bloc Projects
The exhibition is part of our ESEA Futures Key Strand, co-presented with Platform Asia ()
Join us for our opening night tomorrow, 6-8pm at Bloc Projects. The date coincides with the Lunar Mid-Autumn Festival, so we'll have free mooncakes too!
'Other. Absence and Making Public' brings together sound, moving image and research to explore how perception is shaped by vibration, frequency and the environments we move through. Florence To’s motorised sound sculptures respond to the acoustic conditions of the gallery, producing shifting patterns of contact, resonance and sound. Influenced by the avian syrinx, the vocal organ through which birds produce sound, the work extends a longstanding interest in vocalisation towards the animal as a sensing body in constant relation to its surroundings.
Moving between field observation, recordings and gathered material, the work considers what technical systems can detect and make visible, what they overlook, and how human and more-than-human lives encounter the same environments differently. They draw attention to what can be heard, sensed and recorded, what becomes publicly visible, and what remains absent.
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Florence To is an artist, researcher and director of Hong Kong diasporic heritage, creating acoustic scenographies and audiovisual installations with an emphasis on architectural spatial design. They specialised in textiles and tailoring for five years before combining their skills with digital and computational technologies to create installations in abandoned and disused spaces, utilising their defects. Working in an array of architectural environments led them to further investigate the implications of cognitive and emotional triggers, as well as how diverse sensory arrangements are perceived within space. To uses information in relation to vibrations, including psychoacoustics and phonetics, to develop multidimensional processes in their practice.
https://www.blocprojects.co.uk/exhibitions-events/2026/esea-futures-2026
