Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Obra Sonora

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Obra Sonora
Carroll / Fletcher

"Voice Array (2011) is an interactive installation that uses glimmering white LED lights to visualise and play back the voices of thousands of gallery visitors. As a participant speaks into the intercom system, his or her voice is" ... MORE ...

"Sphere Packing (2014) is a series of 3D-printed spheres designed to concentrate the entire musical output of a composer into a singular multi-channel device. Each sphere represents a particular composer, and contains" ... MORE ...

"In Pan-Anthem (2014) hundreds of national anthems are poised to play, upon the approach of the viewer. Individual movable speakers are magnetically fixed across the wall at the front of the gallery, precisely arranged to visualise a set of national statistics: whether population, GDP, land mass, year of independence, or" ... MORE ...

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (b. 1967, Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Montreal, Canada) has held recent solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. He was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale in 2007. He has also shown at Biennials in Havana, Istanbul, Liverpool, Montreal, Moscow, New Orleans, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. His work forms part of several major museum collections including MoMA in New York, MUAC in Mexico, and TATE in London.

Previous Lozano-Hemmer sound installations include the recent public art installation Voice Tunnel (2013) where participants used their voice to transform seven city blocks of the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City; the memorial for the Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City entitled Voz Alta (2008); and the radio electric scanning shadow-play Frequency and Volume (2003) installed at the Venice and Singapore Biennales, the Curve at the Barbican, Louisiana Museum in Denmark and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.