Sounds Like Her: photo gallery

Sounds Like Her is a major new touring exhibition presented by New Art Exchange (Nottingham) featuring Ain Bailey, Sonia Boyce, Linda O’Keeffe, Elsa M’bala, Madeleine Mbida, Magda Stawarska-Beavan and Christine Sun Kim (US).

The exhibition proposes to challenge the male-dominated and Eurocentric frameworks that have informed the history of sound art and often continue to dominate the scene today. Using sound as material or subject, the works selected – including new commissions – address sound in the broadest sense through voice, language, noise, textures, music, sonic structures and non-sonic materialisations of sound. The result is a varied mixed media project bringing together archive material, audio, painting, prints, drawings, video, immersive installations and interactive practice.

More on the exhibition here.

Visit New Art Exchange to find out more on the public programme including Linda O’Keeffe Deep Listening Walk on Sat. 11 Nov from 10.30am to 2.30pm and a conversation between artists and researchers Ain Bailey, Linda O’Keeffe, Cathy Lane and exhibition curator Christine Eyene on Sat 18 Nov from 2.00 to 4.00pm. Free events, all welcome.

Click on any image to view the photo gallery.

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.

Among the archive material presented in the exhibition are videos of 1980s Cameroonian singer-songwriter Sellsa performing her hit Bikutsi track Boula Ane Amimbok on Tele Podium (1987) and Evasion (1992). Archive footage edited for Sounds Like Her exhibition.