(Image) Sound installation "Castles in the air" exhibition site, 2007. Fredric Sanchez's "Castles in the air" solo exhibition runs from May 15 to July 21 at Cent8-Serge le Borgne gallery. Fredric Sanchez is one of the most unique figures in contemporary French art exploration, attempting to develop sound (including music and organized or disorganized sounds), further isolating sound, and introducing it into contemporary art spaces and galleries, thereby sculpting space with sound. In today's art where any material can take shape, sound is no different from oil painting, watercolor, sculpture, objects, and photographs; however, sound is not visual. People listen and comprehend it through other senses in a specific space, connecting like film scores. Fredric Sanchez's sound art installations seek a more pure transformation where sound becomes autonomous, turning space and bringing sound into an imaginative and poetic world. This is Fredric Sanchez's first solo exhibition in a gallery, titled "Castles in the air." When people enter the gallery, finding nothing but four clean white walls under bright fluorescent daylight, it resembles a whimsical corridor. Subtle, emotional footsteps and other sounds come from all directions as people walk; organized and disorganized sounds entangle them. Upon careful listening and savoring, one enters the realm of sound, as if stepping into a poetic, metaphysical world, awakening people's sensibility and multiple imaginations. Since the late 1980s, during the era of postmodern pluralistic development and exploration, like many artists, Fredric Sanchez has attempted to combine diverse artistic categories such as fashion shows, dance, video, theater, and film to liberate the possibilities of art. Starting in 1988, he began experimenting with sound exploration; his first work was created for a Paris fashion show (incorporating natural sounds like wind, rain, and thunder). In 2004, he created the "Salamandre" sound installation for the Louvre's special exhibition "Contrepoint." In 2005, he collaborated with Thierry Dreyfus on the light and sound installation for the opening of the Grand Palais. In 2006, he configured the sound for video artist Ange Leccia's work "La Deraison" at the Louvre, and held a solo exhibition at the Grand-Duc Jean Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg that same year.