ISABEL CARVALHO

CASTING A SOUNDING VOICE 11.11.2023 / 13.01.2024

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In Casting a Sounding Voice the relationship between voice, touch, and its visible mark is explored, with a special focus on the human voice as integrated into the “voice” of materials, or matter. The title serves as the central element that unites many of the semantic derivations present here. Casting a Sounding Voice encompasses the voice in its broadest sense, as sound emitted for the purpose of communication or contact, unfolding into the imprint of sound in audible expression and the sound translation in the molding of matrices to be cast into metal pieces. The underlying premise is to reveal how continuous touch, as a form of contact that exists in all matter, emits sounds, plural voices, which vary in terms of perception, both auditory, visual, and tactile.