If you're in the Netherlands any time from now up to October 11, pop across to Arnhem and this year's iteration of the annual public art project Sonsbeek 2026: Ik hoef geen tuin, ik deel een park (I don't need a backyard, I share a park).
Pick of the attractions in the park is Alvaro Barrington's To Be Heard, pictured above, and this is what he says about it:
Entering the structure, the visitor is invited to sit and allow themselves to hear the world. There is no programmed audio. Instead, what is heard is the rustling of leaves, distant footsteps, one’s own thoughts. Distinctly architectural, the work mediates between nature and shelter, solitude and collectivity. It asks whether hearing, as a deeper attunement to environment and the self, might reshape how memory is formed and proposes that sharing and building space requires learning how to hear within it.
The whole thing is free for everyone to enjoy.
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