
This exhibition centres around a project titled The Fifer, 2019, that will be shown in the UK for the first time. This installation materialises several states of sound across different media and is composed of a holographic screen, a bronze cast of a flute, two photographs, and a musical soundtrack. On the holographic screen a bird flutters in and out of vision, accompanied by the audio of a flute mimicking the melodies of birdsong. Alongside this, the internal cavities of a flute are cast in bronze, rendering the acoustic qualities of this instrument as a weighted thread of metal. The two photographs that complete the work depict a soldier playing the flute whilst facing away from a window. The first print is an archival image and the second is a digital reconstruction that imagines this scene from an exterior perspective. Flautists have historically been used by the military to provide an alternate means of communication that bypassed interceptable mediums such as morse code or the radio. The Fifer stages a dialogue between origin and artifice, denying a simplistic comprehension of an “authentic” sonic source.