Hua International

Bild 1–4: Courtesy Hua International
Bild 5: © The Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin
Bild 6: Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Thomas Schulte

The title is a line spoken by a woman describing the sound of the sea. In Samuel Beckett's Embers, written for radio in 1959, Henry sits at the edge of the water, talking so as not to hear it. He cannot enter it and he cannot leave. Ada, beside him, listens: "It is like an old sound I used to hear. It is like another time, in the same place." She is not describing water. She is describing the way time returns, not remembered exactly, not recovered, but arriving again, altered, inside the present. Radio is the right medium for such a sentence. A broadcast is always a signal sent from one time…