Sounds Like Her

Sounds Like Her, a New Art Exchange UK-touring sound art exhibition (2017-2019) with Ain Bailey, Sonia Boyce, Linda O’Keeffe, Elsa M’bala, Madeleine Mbida, Magda Stawarska-Beavan and Christine Sun Kim.

Curator: Christine Eyene

More on the exhibition here.

Sounds Like Her, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2017-2018)

Right: Sonia Boyce’s new commision for Sounds Like Her. The placards are a new addition to the Devotional series (1999 to present).

Sounds Like Her, exhibition view.

Sonia Boyce, Devotional series, 1999 to present. Installation.

Sonia Boyce, Devotional series, 1999 to present. Detail of installation.

Sonia Boyce, Devotional series, 1999 to present. Detail of wall paper.

Christine Sun Kim, Works on paper, 2014-2016.

Documentation of Christine Sun Kim’s sound performance as part of ‘What Can a Body Do?’ Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford USA, 2012.

Documentation of Christine Sun Kim’s performance Face Opera II. Calder Foundation, 2013.

Sounds Like Her, exhibition view.

Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Mother Tongue series, 2009. Screenprint on paper with audio.

Sounds Like Her, exhibition view.

Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Transliteration series, 2011. Screenprint on black Somerset paper.

Sonia Boyce, Devotional series, 1999 to present. Detail of installation

Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Who/Wer, 2017. Video, 17′.

Ain Bailey, The Pitch Sisters, 2012. 8-channel sound installation, 23’40”

Linda O’Keeffe, Hybrid Soundscapes (detail) 2017. 5-channel sound installation with digital prints on paper.

Magda Stawarska-Beavan

Documentation of Elsa M’bala’s sound art performance during Art Night 2017 at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London.

Archive from research on Bikutsi music. Footage of 1980s Cameroonian singer- songwriter Sellsa performing her hit track Boula Ane Amimbok on Tele Podium, Yaounde, 1987.

Madeleine Mbida, paintings representing Bikutsi dancers, 2016.

Right: Madeleine Mbida, chromatic combinations based on Bikutsi rhythmic patterns, 2016. Foreground: balafon, visitors are invited to play the various instruments presented in the exhibition.