From Noise we Begin

2025, Installation with CRT television and 1000 mm Fresnel lens, 1000 mm focal length

TV static is a familiar signal of a bygone era, the flickering noise of an untuned screen. Yet within this noise lies something older: a faint trace of the earliest light in the universe.

From Noise We Begin is a lens-based installation built around a large 100 cm Fresnel lens positioned in front of a CRT showing static. As visitors move through the corridor, the image bends, stretches and fractures, transforming the static into shifting fields of distortion. The work changes with every step and turns perception into a physical, spatial experience.

Created specifically for Emergence Festival, the installation responds to the long entrance hallway of the Onderzeebootloods, the first space that visitors pass through.
2025