cricket walk | Bella Bram

The soft, steady chirping of crickets becomes the acoustic backdrop for a path through landscape, memory, and perception. It accompanies every movement, settling gently beneath the visible without overwhelming it. In the simultaneity of presence and background, cricket walk unfolds – as a reflection on attention, space, and the quiet rhythms of the living.

Building on the work group schwärmen, which explores animal structures, collective intelligences, and architectural systems, the exhibition investigates how forms of nature can be translated into processes of perception. The objects emerge within the tension between Brutalism and insect architecture, between rational construction and organic movement. They point to a mode of thinking in structures that relies less on control than on resonance – a mode of shaping that unfolds tentatively, comparable to the sensitive antennae of an insect.

The titular “chirping” functions as both an aesthetic and conceptual metaphor. It stands for a contemplative relationship with the environment, one in which perception is not directed toward the spectacular but toward the barely audible, the enduring. Like swarming, which develops between individual gesture and collective movement, cricket walk suggests a mode of thinking in transitions – between subject and surroundings, object and atmosphere, and the silence of an ostensibly sonic phenomenon. In this ambivalence, an understanding of form emerges that is defined not by demarcation but by permeability. The works become resonant bodies of an expanded concept of nature, in which the non-human is not merely a motif but an active participant. cricket walk is thus less a walk than a state: a quiet attunement to the rhythm of a world that continually responds – even when it seems silent.