The exhibition Two Dots on a Smooth Black Surface offers to the viewers and listeners a field of artistic research of sound presented in nine installations. Filatov creates works that balance between sensuality and technological strategies, materiality and immaterial vibrations, mathematical precision and handmade. The artist is interested in paradoxical interactions that explore the acoustic characteristics of various materials — metal, glass, resins and others. During the lengthy research he opened new principles of sound-producing, revealing the sound potential of various objects and materials.
The key factor in understanding Sergey Filatov’s research of sound is the aesthetics of reception — the attention to not only the structure and sounding of the works, but also the ways to perceive them as viewers and listeners. All presented sound works carry a wide margin for interpretations. These are related to the specifics of different people’s perception in a perspective manner and to the objects' position in space. Therefore, the dynamics and the variability demonstrate ways in which sound artworks can interact with the environment they are situated in.