The exhibition Sounds of Skies, Forests of Instability brings together two newly commissioned installations by Dutch-based and internationally renowned artists Femke Herregraven and Sébastien Robert, inviting audiences to move between immersive audiovisual storytelling and visceral sensory experiences at Het Documentaire Paviljoen during Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, Melted for Love. The exhibition will be open from noon on the day of the talk, welcoming visitors to explore Femke Herregraven The Evacuated, an audiovisual simulation of a Dutch forest that rewrites itself in real time, where memory becomes volatile, time loops and mutates, and continuity breaks apart. Interdisciplinary artist and researcher Sébastien Robert presents All But Silent, an audiovisual installation that listens to the northern lights and immerses visitors in a sculptural space that is sensitive to their movements, where human presence and auroral data merge in real time. Together, the works explore how our understanding shifts when we inhabit a story from within rather than observe it from afar.

Alongside the exhibition, visitors are invited to a dedicated artist talk, which offers the chance to meet the artists and delve further into the ideas behind these new commissions. Held in the cinema hall of Het Documentaire Paviljoen, the conversation brings together Femke Herregraven – an artist who traverses the effects of abstract value systems on landscapes, ecosystems, language, historiography, and daily life – and Sébastien Robert, a French interdisciplinary artist and researcher working across visual and sound art, technology, science, and ethnography. Drawing directly from their long-term research trajectories, they will discuss the methods, conceptual frameworks, and wider contexts that inform The Evacuated and All But Silent, guiding audiences deeper into the exhibition.

The conversation is moderated by Rachael Rakes.