Sound and Vision
UVA - Synchronicity / Until December 17th 2023
180 Strand, London
United Visual Artists (UVA), a London-based collective formed in 2003, unveil their largest-ever exhibition, presented by 180 Studios.
Set within 180’s labyrinthine and industrial underground space in the Strand, the exhibition takes you on a journey through eight, primarily large-scale, immersive works, each challenging our perceptions of time through light, sound and movement.
The exhibition features a new audiovisual installation, Polyphony, exploring our relationship with the natural world. Evocative field recordings of the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve in the Central African Republic, created by influential sound artist Bernie Krause (The Great Animal Orchestra) and set to a hypnotic lightshow framed within a circular auditorium, serve as a memento mori to industrialisation and species loss.
challenging our perceptions of time through light, sound and movement
Musica Universalis
Musica Universalis, explores light, harmony and movement, reinterpreting the proportionality of heavenly bodies and the philosophical notion of ‘sound’ between them. Changes of light and colour and the interplay of shadow create an otherwordly atmosphere, UVA’s ‘kinetic instruments’ helping to envelop the viewer in a quasi-religious experience.
In Present Shock II, UVA teamed up once again with Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja. A vast wall of statistics displaying algorithmically-generated news headlines is fun and frightening, impressive and captivating.
UVA - Synchronicity, like Universal Everything’s highly impressive show, Lifeforms, last year, is ideal for 180’s dark, cavernous spaces, highlighting the richness of multiple sensory experiences and the profound nature of time and human existence.
Not to be missed.