Rainbow Within, 0+

The sun is yellow, the sea is blue, the grass is green. We’re all accustomed to seeing the world in colour—but imagine experiencing hues through sound or touch. How do people who’ve never seen colours imagine it? How do they conceptualize colours, and through what sensory channels might they experience them?

With insights from exhibition curator Artyom Sakhnov – a visually impaired composer and student at Kazan State Institute of Culture – we’ll explore answers to these complex questions through the ‘Rainbow Within’ project. For this specific project, Artyom composed the music solely based on visual descriptions and his personal sensory interpretations of colour.

“What does green sound like?”; “Why do we call it ‘white noise’?”; “Does red truly smell of roses?”. From this search for imagery, sounds were born. In each dedicated space of the exhibition, rainbow colours come alive as physical objects render them tangible.  Colours are not just to be seen – they can be heard and felt. The world around us resonates with sound. Listen closely – in this symphony of life, there is room for every hue: from muted to vibrant, from delicate to bold, from warm to ice-cold crystalline.

The exhibition project is located in chambers in the courtyard of Public Offices (Prisutstvennye Mesta).

Free entry.