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Sound and vision merge at Lisson Gallery exhibition that creates a synaesthetic world

Music and visual art merge as one for Jorinde Voigt’s new exhibition at Lisson Gallery.

Both Sides Now, so named after the Joni Mitchell song, sees Voigt create a synaesthetic world, with drawings embedded with scores and rhythms. A trained cellist herself, her work is characterised by its interest in bringing sound and vision together.

In Both Sides Now, a new piece created this year, Voigt depicts a single object turning in space over 10 versions. It is part abstract concept and part internal organ, depicting the sensation of being alive rather than a detailed anatomical drawing.

Another piece created this year, Thank You But No Thank You, features black chinese ink and red acrylic spray, with handwritten inscriptions recalling a traumatic experience.

A major ongoing work of Voigt’s, Song of the Earth: Divine Territory, is part of a cycle inspired by Gustav Mahler. Five drawings become one panoramic landscape, made up of shapes created according to lines of notation created by the artist.

The exhibition will also see two musicians respond to the work within it by creating an aural landscape live on its final day, June 24.

Both Sides Now is at Lisson Gallery’s Bell Street gallery until June 24; lissongallery.com

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