Nikita Gale: Anechoic Chamber

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Anechoic Chamber – Austin, 2020
Digital print
24 x 18 inches
Edition of 50
 
Nikita Gale’s artistic practice is fueled by an interest in inter-object relationships as social and political revelatory mechanisms. Her multidimensional installations, sculptures, and performances often employ familiar items and materials, such as crowd control barricades and sound foam, as social and political revelatory mechanisms. This implicative treatment is underscored by a particular interest in protest culture, soundscapes, and the body's potential as a site for transformative influence. This poster features an image of an anechoic chamber—an insulated space intended to absorb sound waves. The artist uses this to address themes related to amplification and silencing, control, and protection. The image is a part of Gale's ongoing research into the relationship between music, popular culture, and civic dissent.
 
Nikita Gale was born in 1983 in Anchorage, Alaska. Her work has been installed in solo presentations at a variety of institutions, including the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA (2018); University of Texas-Austin Visual Arts Center (2019); MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2020); Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK (2021); and 52 Walker, New York, NY (2022). Her work has also been featured in multiple group exhibitions, including 100,000 Cubicle Hours, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2012); Hearsay, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw (2014); Race, Love, and Labor, Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz; NY (2016); Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2017); Made in LA 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium, Bemis Center, Omaha; Mud Muses, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (both 2019); Wild Frictions, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (2021); and Beneath Tounges, Swiss Institute, New York, NY (2022). Gale currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.