Isuru Kumarasinghe’s work centres on resonance as a way of understanding the entanglement of bodies, architecture, and sound. In »Resounding Bodies,« a sound installation composed of metals, asynchronous loops and custom-built resonator instruments, Kumarasinghe explores sympathetic resonance as both a physical phenomenon and a social metaphor.
Two aluminium plates connected by strings and tuning keys are set into vibration and amplified through a steel membrane speaker, allowing frequencies to interact, induce one another, and fill the space. The piece frames resonance as a process of encounter less about agreement than attention, inviting visitors to experience sound as a means of sensing invisible connections, embodied memory, and affective alignment beyond language.
In the artist’s words: »Our bodies carry countless memories formed by situations, experiences, encounters, and relationships. The body acts as a vessel that collects, carries, processes, and becomes. All these are not merely archived within but are living, vibrating, transforming, and shaping how we relate to the world and each other. Within our bodies, it is as if daily rituals happen in a process of becoming.«
Rather than seeking resonance by seeing »eye-to-eye,« the piece emphasises the process of »feel-to-feel« – where feeling does not necessarily mean full agreement, but rather the act of paying attention to how we resonate (or dissonate) with one another and what is communicated without words.
Commissioned by CTM Festival, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and iii - instrument inventors initiative. Isuru Kumarasinghe is a 2025/26 Music & Sound fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin-Program. The project has been developed during his residency in Berlin with curatorial support by Dahlia Borsche and Sebastian Dürer.
Technical Advice: John Broback
Special thanks: Dahlia Borsche, Sebastian Dürer, Sara Mikolai
CTM 2026 Exhibition
24.1. – 22.3.2026 | Free entry
daadgalerie & Kunstraum Kreuzberg