About

During an excavation, a rock formation in the shape of the buccal cavity is found. Tremors in the form of punctuations, utterances, whispers, mumbles, mutterings, stutters and incoherent narrations pulse through its surfaces. Riddled with what seem to be hysterical-historical narrations, the architectonics of the mouth becomes a chamber for entangled sounding and listening. 


The densely packed collections of vocal fragments in the object on view, however, are heard only when they come in contact with a listening body. Straining to be ‘heard’, the abject of the archive leaks out of the oral/ aural objects—each discrete listen forming microsites of psychical, biopolitical and geohistorical events and encounters.

About the Artist


Suvani works with sound, text and intermedia assemblages that engage with modes of listening, voicing and sonic thought. Her practice plumbs the gaps, cracks, absurdities and excesses embedded within the technological processes of production, mediation and perception of sound. This often takes the form of fictions, objects, mixtapes and speculative artefacts that attempt to recalibrate the thresholds of (in)audibility.

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