SEEING Voices – an exhibition exploring how the voice is visualised in contemporary art – opens at the Riddoch Art Gallery this Saturday.
A collaboration between NETS Victoria and Monash University Museum of Art I MUMA, the exhibition uses the Monash University Collection as a springboard for thinking through the voice.
Seeing Voices encompasses drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and video and a live performance with each iteration of the exhibition.
In the exhibition, the voice might act as a metaphor for collective action, for speaking out against injustice and coming together in gestures of solidarity.
The voice may also function like a spiritual medium – through its historical recording and archiving, it time-travels to haunt the present.
It can also be an index, a measure of position, perspective, distance and emotion.
In private, in public, in conversation, on record – the voice connects our experiences with those of others.
In addition to artworks selected from the Monash University Collection, Seeing Voices features loans from Australian and international artists.
Seeing Voices will be on display at the Riddoch Art Gallery until September 16.
