"Rosenström envisioned his project as an homage to the act of speech rather than to patriotic rhetoric. His multi-speaker, site-specific sound installation was "partly inspired by the Four Freedoms speech, and partly inspired by my relationship to how I think about human voices as means or a medium to travel between people", the Finnish artist explains."
"Known in his native Nordic territories for sculpting space with sound, including in last year's Helsinki Biennial, Rosenström has rarely had the opportunity to exhibit in the US. He hails from Helsinki, lives in Stockholm and spent six months in New York in 2024 on an International Studio & Curatorial Program residency, which is how Out of Silence began to come together."
"When the Latvian curator Alina Girshovich approached him about a public art commission to mark the 90th birthday of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt last year, Rosenström jumped at the chance. "I'm not an expert in his music or his compositions," he says. "I don't know how to write music, but I'm sensitive to sound-as we all are.""
"Rosenström continues: "We are constantly surrounded by voices; they very much affect the way we experience the present and our relationship with our surroundings." Out of Silence, curated by Girshovich, is a sonic composition of layered, recorded voices sung by the Estonian choir Vox Clamantis, staggered across Four Freedoms Park as four sections rooted in four sites within the park, using the human voice as a building block to impact the envi"
Out of Silence is a multi-speaker, site-specific sound installation by Hans Rosenström at Four Freedoms Park in New York. The project is shaped by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech and by Rosenström’s focus on human voices as a medium for connection. Rosenström, known for sculpting space with sound, created the work after a New York residency and a commission tied to Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday. He emphasizes sensitivity to sound and the way voices influence experience and surroundings. The installation features layered, recorded voices sung by the Estonian choir Vox Clamantis, arranged in four sections rooted in four park sites to shape the environment through the human voice.
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