Soundpiece (16 channel)

Margarita Wenzel explores how synthetic voices shape our perception of intimacy, authenticity, and collectivity. In Virtual Voiɔɘƨ, she weaves together vocal technologies and affective narratives to question the boundaries between body and machine, presence and absence. Drawing on vocal exercises transformed into AI instructions, the artist clones, fragments, and distorts her own voice to compose a hybrid, glitched, and unsettling soundscape. Installed in situ, the work unfolds through vibrating speakers, creating an immersive listening experience enhanced by orange lighting and a silver floor. Interlacing text and voice, the piece raises a fundamental question: who owns a voice once it becomes digital data? Copper, present in the installation, functions both as an ancient mirror and a technological material, linking these floating voices to the history of reflection, language, and extraction. Virtual Voiɔɘƨ probes our relationship to the voice in the age of artificial intelligence — suspended between the erasure of the body and the persistence of the sensorial.

Text by Ludovic Delalande

Funded by Fondation Fiminco, Paris