Being so coqueta is hard work. Always looking impeccable, forever seeking new ways to stimulate the body, mind, and soul. Lucky for you, coquetas.online is here to bring you the hottest new recipes, parties, shopping finds, secrets, and events. And the latest event on our radar? An unforgettable experimental gallery curated by the one and only Sara Place.
Consider this your invitation to turn off your phone, with nine artists, awakening all of your senses.
Afterimage
Curated by Sara Place
Our generation is living through a period of accelerated feeling, surrounded by an unprecedented volume of images, sounds, and information, yet increasingly distanced from the experience of actually feeling them. Consequently, art is consumed objectively: viewed, scrolled past, and forgotten about. We encounter images faster than we can process them, and experiences are increasingly mediated through screens, algorithms, and systems designed to capture and immediately redirect our attention.
This exhibition begins from a desire to feel rather than observe. Rather than presenting art as something to be solely looked at, the exhibition proposes an environment in which perception becomes the medium itself. Bringing together sound and visual practitioners, it constructs an immersive space that exists somewhere between the digital and the physical, the tangible and the imagined.
Each collaboration becomes an act of worldbuilding, constructing alternative realities through sensation. Inspired by the sensory experience of nightclubs, the exhibition converges light, sound, atmosphere, scent, and movement to produce an experience that is felt before it is consciously understood. These senses are not treated as separate disciplines but rather as interpretive languages capable of suggesting, distorting, and transforming one another. A visual work may alter the way a sound is perceived, while sound may give an image an emotional or spatial dimension it could not possess alone. Through this exchange, meaning is not predetermined by the artist but emerges through the encounter between elements, bodies, and environments.
Across approximately six to eight audio and visual practitioners, each integration of senses becomes a collection of interconnected worlds. Bringing together artists who are pioneering technology into sensory and tangible forms, the artists are paired through the underlying impulses within their practices, bringing together existing collaborators alongside unexpected pairs to push each other beyond familiar boundaries.
The works are not intended to exist as isolated objects but as parts of a larger environment in which light, sound, movement, atmosphere, and bodies continuously affect one another. There is no singular perspective from which the works should be understood, nor a prescribed way of experiencing them. The exhibition instead asks what happens when we permit ourselves to experience before we interpret—moving from looking at art to being within it, from spectatorship to participation, and from consumption to sensation. We invite a collective experience rather than spectators.
Elizabeth O’Brien
Elizabeth is a visual artist blending digital animation and sculpture to investigate the way that we experience reality in a virtual age. Inspired by Gaian philosophies and sci-fi writers, she creates artifacts that reimagine anthropocentric narratives of technological advances.
Jake Slipkovich
Jake Slipkovich (aka dj twinkle) blends fieldwork and maximalist noise inspired by surrounding nature to create a transcendent ambience. Working between sound and perfumery, they incorporate scent into their performances to build their imagined world.
Elena Garcia Sirvent
Elena is a sound and video artist exploring the intersection of sound, materiality, and perception. Inspired by ‘Foley,’ she references the reproduction of everyday sounds and how sounds can be reimagined, reproduced, and displaced in both physical and psychological environments.
Kairi Tokoro
Kairi is an artist based in London, working across sculpture, sound, performance, and workshops. His work focuses on sound-based kinetic sculptures, performances, and participatory workshops that stage the ‘interval’ (Ma) between bodies, objects, and space; audiences activate the work through movement and listening.
Motif of Decay
motif of decay is a London-based Lithuanian–Latvian audiovisual duo formed by Egle Saka and The Remains of Decay. Their work combines industrial electronic soundscapes, analogue and digital video synthesis, glitch and dark ambient textures.
Azusa Sato
Azusa is a sound artist exploring the physicality and perception of sound through ambient and drone, installation, and stage design. Interested in the relationship between sound and space, she uses sound as a physical medium to inform spatial configuration and structure while exploring temporality, fluctuations in focus, and how sound can become structure itself.
Porsha Yemi
Porsha Yemi is a visual and sound artist experimenting with different technologies to create liminal environments. Through sound and visual art, they explore identity and transformation, creating spaces where emotion can exist in fluidity.
DJ: Sexy B*tch
I am left a little bit confused, intrigued and with so many questions. let’s answer them all the 15th of October at algah’s plantroom E3 2NR from 7-11pm.
Kisu S