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The work consists of a small black cube placed directly on the floor. Inside the box a CD player, a miniature loudspeaker and a motion sensor create a simple responsive system.

When a visitor approaches the object, the sensor activates the sound: a prolonged whisper repeating the familiar gesture of asking for silence: shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

The form of the object recalls two black cubes, both bound to an ultimate truth: the black box of an airplane, which keeps the last words before a catastrophe, and the Kaaba in Mecca, the black cube toward which millions turn in prayer. Here too everything converges on the cube, but what it returns is a request for silence.

Despite its minimal scale, the object behaves as a small acoustic authority. The closer the viewer approaches, the more the cube imposes silence, transforming curiosity into a moment of restraint.

The work reflects on the paradox of revelation and concealment: the closer one comes to the source of truth, the more insistently it demands silence.