Pipeless
13.03 - 11.04 2026
The exhibition Pipeless is a solo exhibition by William Eglite.
Mathematician Charles Babbage wrote in 1837 that what is set in motion in the air theoretically never truly disappears. The sound waves of a spoken word may quickly become imperceptible, but even when we can no longer hear them, they continue to "wander over the surface of the seas and the earth", affecting their future surroundings. According to Babbage, the air is a vast library in which everything ever said and done is stored within its particles.
The exhibition Pipeless takes this idea as its point of departure. In the space, we hear the sound of an organ, yet the organ pipes from which the sound originally emerged are absent. The tones emanate from an indistinct place within the room. We hear their slow arrival and departure as they mingle with the hum of the radiator, the sound of water running through the drain, and the faint noise of the road outside.
The exhibition space appears as an apparently empty framework in which the room's own elements come to the fore, creating the conditions for an inward, private space of listening where images and movements may arise. In this way, the exhibition seeks to allow sound to create connections between the inner and the outer, between the external three-dimensional space — the surrounding world — and the internal, dimensionless space in which thoughts and dreams take shape.
Exhibition curator — Møn & Søn
The exhibition is kindly supported by Aarhus Municipality and the Danish Composers' Society.
The exhibition Pipeless is a solo exhibition by William Eglite.
Mathematician Charles Babbage wrote in 1837 that what is set in motion in the air theoretically never truly disappears. The sound waves of a spoken word may quickly become imperceptible, but even when we can no longer hear them, they continue to "wander over the surface of the seas and the earth", affecting their future surroundings. According to Babbage, the air is a vast library in which everything ever said and done is stored within its particles.
The exhibition Pipeless takes this idea as its point of departure. In the space, we hear the sound of an organ, yet the organ pipes from which the sound originally emerged are absent. The tones emanate from an indistinct place within the room. We hear their slow arrival and departure as they mingle with the hum of the radiator, the sound of water running through the drain, and the faint noise of the road outside.
The exhibition space appears as an apparently empty framework in which the room's own elements come to the fore, creating the conditions for an inward, private space of listening where images and movements may arise. In this way, the exhibition seeks to allow sound to create connections between the inner and the outer, between the external three-dimensional space — the surrounding world — and the internal, dimensionless space in which thoughts and dreams take shape.
Exhibition curator — Møn & Søn
William Eglite
(* 1991) is a visual artist and writer who lives and works in Copenhagen. Through sound, video, and text, his works revolve around subjects situated at the periphery of the trivial, driven by a recurring interest in immateriality and the almost non-existent. Eglite is the author of three books published by Antipyrine and Arkhest. His works have been presented at the MOMENTUM 13 Biennale, Lydgalleriet, Skaftfell Art Center, and Struer Tracks.Møn & Søn
is a curatorial duo consisting of Julie Marie Mønsted (*1993) and Sally Baasch Søndergaard (* 1997). Their collaboration began in 2025 with a desire to investigate how an exhibition can take shape through a few precise gestures, and how these can activate not only the space itself but also the viewer. Their curatorial practice revolves around sound as the central element in an exploration of atmosphere, absence, and materiality.The exhibition is kindly supported by Aarhus Municipality and the Danish Composers' Society.
