The project challenges Richard Wagner’s notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk, the “total artwork” that sought to merge different art forms into a single unified vision. In the Wagnerian sense, this unity often implied control, authorship, and a totalizing gaze. Listening Eyes resists this framework. It reimagines the total artwork as an open, unstable field where sound, text, image, and digital material coexist without hierarchy, distinct yet interdependent, forming a living network of perception and exchange.

In digital space, perception becomes fluid, and distance forms a new kind of closeness. Following Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of perception as something that emerges through the body’s dialogue with the world, the project considers how, even within virtual environments, experience remains embodied. Digital artworks can become environments that shift the viewer’s emotional and physical state, a flicker of light, a pulse of sound, a moment of delay, gestures that invite slower, more attentive forms of perception.

Visitors will move through an interactive cartography, discovering relationships through echoes, textures, and rhythms rather than linear narratives. Each selected piece will be showcased as an independent work within this shared digital space, presented on a dedicated website designed for the exhibition.