Delfin Lev

IN SITUSonic intervention, 15 min
January 2024

Drawing from the cadence of football and horserace narrators, In Situ is an audio intervention that plays with the tropes and choreographies of club culture.

Taking a bird’s eye look at the dance floor, the narrator watches over three characters in the audience and describes their movements with tenacity. The work plays with the dichotomy of spontaneity and predictability of nightlife, and how we move around in it.

In Situ seamlessly takes over the sound system in between DJ sets, and is experienced in between bouts of dancing.

#1 JOB SIFRE
#2 RHYTHYM 100

De Sering, Amsterdam

Thanks to: Andreas Tegnander

COLD LINEInteractive sonic sculptureJanuary 2023

The first object of the triad “Tools of Abject Empathy”.

Cold Line invites the viewer to eavesdrop on an evolving soundscape presented in a dialless, numberless Vertushka telephone.

Designed as an evocative object inspired by landline eavesdropping, the work explores the isolating nature of tools of intimacy. Presenting two telephones that have become autonomous, that neither ring nor can be dialled, Cold Line imagines an intimacy abstracted through a tool that has moved into this tool and now exists beyond its persons.

A phone line that roams freely by its own will between connections and conversations, where the only seat to take is that of the intruder.

Collaborators
Alec Mateo, Quentin Lepoutre

Exhibitions

Galerie de Schans, Netherlands 2023
Shortwood, Belgium 2023
Huis Marseille 2023

IN PRESS

LINK TO RECORDING

CORRECTIONSSoundwalk, 15 min
May 2023

Playing with the form and tropes of a museum audio guide, Corrections subverts traditional notions of authority and offers a surreal guided walk through the Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honour, in which disembodied narrators open the gates for affects destabilizing of the distance these spaces require.

Collaborators
Alec Mateo

Exhibitions

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Photography
Lonneke van der Palen

LINK

3 AM EXODUSArtbook, 67 pages
150 copies
August 2021

3 AM Exodus is a collection of poems and illustrations built around the names of twelve people. Each poem is written only with words that are numerical equivalents of the names, as a way of letting them tell their story through Gematria.

Acquired by

Dante ve Istakoz, Turkey
Minoa Bookstore, Turkey
Robinson Crusoe, Turkey
San Serriffe, Netherlands
Perdu, Netherlands
KA Space for Visual Culture and Artistic Thinking
Shopi Go Art

LINK TO INTERVIEW

Design
E S Kibele Yarman
Printing and Binding
Printcenter
Photography
Zeynep Fırat

PENTIMENTO
Choreographic spatial installation
March 2022

"Pentimento" is an immersive installation designed to interact with the architectural features of gallery W139 in Amsterdam. Inspired by the narrow staircase that serves as a primary passage between floors, the work disrupts the circulation with a text piece visible only through a mirror positioned to face the staircase.
The text, written in bright green letters on the steps' risers, reads:
"THIS IS A REFLECTIVE SURFACE BUT YOU CANNOT DRINK FROM IT."

Prompting the visitors to pause as they encounter it, Pentimento causes a further congestion in the already constrained space.
By using an object of vanity as it’s frame, "Pentimento" challenges the immunity of the looker, and suggests an alternative frame.

W139 , Netherlands
Collaborators: Studio FCP

WAKING THEORYShort film, 9 minutes
April 2024

Four troubled individuals commit to a healing sanctuary outside the city to reenact their dreams through movement performances. Under the scrutiny of an ominous leader, they wish to exorcize the body of its emotional burden and attain a sense of an awakening.

Collaborators Sebastian Vasquez, Margarita Kosareva
, Eloy Cojal, Hayley Mathers, Lidewij Wolthers, Ivana B Jade, Lea Ellemann