Helena Almeida, Jacopo Benassi, Luisa Cunha, Chelpa Ferro, João Ferro Martins, Lea Managil, Laurent Montaron & Pedro Paiva
Sound field

3+1 Arte Contemporânea is pleased to announce Sound field, a group exhibition which brings together works by Helena Almeida (PT 1934 – 2018), Jacopo Benassi (IT 1970), Luisa Cunha (PT 1949), Chelpa Ferro (BR formed 1995), João Ferro Martins (PT 1979), Lea Managil (PT 1991), Laurent Montaron (FR 1972) and Pedro Paiva (PT 1977).

The exhibition explores sound as language and the different ways in which the selected artists engage with it as an idea and as a medium, through audio, installation, performance, photography and sculpture. The audience is invited to reflect on the various ways the theme can be employed across artistic practices. For the first time, the works will be exhibited across the two gallery spaces and the showroom, spatially allowing them to occupy the rooms unhindered and contemplative.

Although several of the artists specifically work with sound as the main vehicle for their practices, others within the exhibition (have) closely worked with elements which allude to sound. Whether it be relating to music, theatre, performance, ideas surrounding the notion of hearing and storytelling, each work evokes and calls upon the idea of sound to draw the viewer to consider the medium as intrinsic mode within each of the artists’ practices and on a broader field within contemporary art practices.

Sound art has the ability to transport individuals and people collectively, as the medium pervades spaces. It allows for the senses to be activated and then to be transported by personal experiences to a different place and time, perhaps transcending them. The experience becomes a physical one, as sound ignites a physiological response through the ear to the body. It can trigger memories, emotions and the imagination.