_In 36,000 Ways

In this intimate, site-specific variation of his ongoing project, Karim Ben Khelifa shifts the experience of war from cognition to embodiment, confronting audiences with its physical and emotional weight.

Inside a solitary booth, a single shard of missile shrapnel collected from frontline sites in Ukraine is presented to the visitor. As each person enters, their presence is detected and subtle physiological signals captured non-invasively, translated into a responsive low-frequency soundscape, where the visitor’s own heartbeat becomes a quiet, persistent rhythm of resilience within the wreckage.