The Breath was a musical performance presented during Alena Olasyuk’s solo exhibition of the same name at Zero Gallery, Paris (24/05/2025). Developed in collaboration with Dmitry Esker, the work translated drawing into sound: each line became both a visual statement and a sonic event — two waveforms echoing each other in real time.

The audience was invited to perceive the same gesture through two modalities: the eye following the ink’s path, the ear following its translation into sound. A single, deliberate brushstroke could generate a resonant sustained tone; a spontaneous reach for ink could unfold as a cascade of granular textures. Simplicity in movement revealed complexity in sound, and vice versa.

More than an accompaniment, the performance was a meditation on non-duality. Line and sound co-arose, interdependent and inseparable. Painting did not illustrate music, nor music illustrate painting; both emerged from the same gesture, the same breath, the same relational field.

The performance featured @stansee, @dmitry_esker, and @lo____w.

Video documentation: @arina_photographie.

Postproduction: @boltuha.