February 29, 2020
CereProc supported international artist Haegue Yang for the Pine’s Eye exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery. Haegue presented an ensemble of sculptures from The Intermediates series on top of a nonagon shaped floor graphic with a new sound element synthesising her own voice, blending ideas of modernity, estrangement, pagan traditions and folk cultures to unsettle familiar hierarchies.
CereProc help support a new sound element based on the cloned voice of the artist where we modified her accent across a number or European style. This technology enabled new disembodied relationships to the voice and allows Yang to raise questions about its ‘neutrality’ or ‘authenticity’. Narrating the epic novel by Victor Hugo (1802- 1885), The Man Who Laughs (1869), the cloned and supposedly accentless voice generated by the machine is linked by the artist to the tale of monsters, vagabonds, outsiders and the odd beings and their ‘bare life’ outside.