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Review of Trevor Paglen's San Jose Art Exhibition

11 Dec, 2021

Review of Trevor Paglen's San Jose Art Exhibition

Letha Ch’ien reviews the art installation in San Jose that sounds off on the ‘weirding of truth’ each day at noon. “There Will Come Soft Rains,” is installed in the San José Museum of Art for a year, ending next November.

From the review:

Trevor Paglen’s new sound piece at the San José Museum of Art surprises us out of our solitary absorption into a strange communal experience. Installed outside the museum, rather than within, “There Will Come Soft Rains” subversively enters the public space, sounding into the plaza outside the museum.

“There Will Come Soft Rains,” Paglen’s first commissioned sound piece, joins the South Bay museum’s Beta Space program, which invites artists to create experimental work. It is installed for an extended run of a year, ending next November.

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