VIEW IN MY ROOM
The Weight Of My Soul Keeps Ringing In My Ears Installation
United Kingdom
Installation, Sound on Sound
Size: 48 W x 38 H x 48 D in
About The Artwork
This work uses repetitive word and the progressive image to explore the idea of self and the deterioration of the individual within this notion. The sound that vibrates from this piece is the artists voice repeating the words “I AM” layered 65 times (the equivalent of the artists weight in kilograms). Sub harmonic generators were then used to create low frequency versions of the original recordings. This sound is played through a single speaker placed in the centre of a white box which takes up a 4 foot square area of the room. Hamilton describes this as the amount of space she feels comfortable in when in a room full of strangers. As the viewer draws closer to this box they can see a small amount of salt (3 kilograms) vibrating due to the sound emanating from the single speaker. The amount of salt that the artist has chosen to place on top of the box is significant, 3 kilograms represents past, present and future - the futility of it all…repetition, uncanny over interpretation and unrealistic expectation being the foundation of this work.
Details & Dimensions
Installation:Sound on Sound
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:48 W x 38 H x 48 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United Kingdom
Helena Hamilton is an artist who works both visually and sonically. Her practice is informed by inquisitive exploration of interaction, reconciliation and negotiation between subject, object and environment. Themes of the everyday, simplicity and repetition are consistent throughout her works in a variety of media including sound, installation, drawing, interactive digital and performance. Presence, phenomenological being and the relations between self and the world are the subject matter of her work. Often austere in aesthetic and concept, Hamilton’s work seeks authenticity in her negotiations through methodical and uncompromising simplicity. This reveals itself through effects of liveness and interactivity. She uses methods of repetition as a means to materialise variable and idiosyncratic effects, with performativity and embodied action being paramount to this process.
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