Artist Nada El-Omari presents the exhibition do you hear your eye vibrate?, an immersive installation in which image, sound and text dialogue in disjunction. Bringing together moving image, sound composition and textual fragments, the work interrogates the acoustic imaginary of incarceration and the regimes of perception that shape our existences. Recipient of the Plein sud 2025 Grant, the artist unfolds a project that situates itself within current concerns around memory, diasporas, and visible and invisible systems of control.

Rooted in the idea that sound is both a tool of power and a space of resistance, El-Omari expands the notion of incarceration beyond the prison cell and prison complex, considering it instead as a diffuse condition. The prisons she evokes are material, political, affective, and systemic. They inhabit the soundscapes we forget to listen to, the technological hums, the imposed silences, the narratives that occupy our space without us realizing it. Through a 20-minute looped soundscape, the artist constructs a dense and immersive environment where domestic textures morph into more unsettling vibrations, revealing the porosity between comfort and constraint.

The exhibition space takes the form of a room. Within it, five “windows” of moving images, framed as such, open onto an outside world. Drawn from archives collected over the past two years in both analog and digital formats, these images reflect El-Omari’s process-driven approach to cinema. Rather than linear narration, she works through fragments, repetition, and disjunction. The eye is not invited to consume a sequence of images, but to witness, to inhabit duration. Urban movements, bodies traversing the city, and everyday gestures become charged with latent tension: that of a predefined freedom coexisting with a parallel time-world marked by injustice and violence.

Scattered throughout the room—on the floor, on walls, hanging in space—are sheets of words: poems, phrases, notations. These fragments invite an embodied and mobile reading. Writing becomes evidence, trace, and projection toward a future to be invented. Within this space, the image may get lost in the echo, the sound may numb or awaken, and language becomes a threshold between memory and becoming.

With do you hear your eye vibrate?, the artist proposes a space of reflection and resistance where the personal becomes inevitably political. The installation transforms the gallery into a site of resonance, inviting the audience to physically engage with the frictions between memory, territory, and power, and to become active witnesses rather than passive passengers.