Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, a trained musician, creates visually and acoustically intriguing installations where sound and sculpture merge, revealing unexpected beauty in the ordinary. The Cerca Series will feature his untitled sound sculpture, composed of three large inflatable plastic pools filled with floating porcelain bowls of varying size and dimension. Caught in the current of circulating water, the porcelain vessels endlessly and hypnotically swirl around one another. Boursier-Mougenot "tunes" the room conditions to exaggerate the alternately cacophonous and harmonious sounds created by the gently colliding dishes. Bowl size is varied to alternate pitch, water temperature is specified to maximum resonance, and pump strength is controlled to affect frequency of collision. The resulting combination of sounds at any given point is as much a product of chance as it is of choreography. Boursier-Mougenot, who lives and works in France, introduced his work to the United States through a residency at PS1 in New York and exhibitions at the Paula Cooper Gallery.

Cerca Series: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is made possible by a contribution from Fritz and Nora Sargent. Additional support for the Cerca Series comes from the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.