Cell Project Space

Artist and musician, LA Timpa presents his first UK solo exhibition and a new body of work that extends his compositional practice into spatial form. Rooted in memory, the installation considers how sound leaves its trace on physical matter, proposing sculpture as a resonant architecture through which histories are held, carried, and given agency.

 

For this exhibition, Timpa summons unseen presences, reframing listening as an embodied, durational encounter. Drawing from personal narratives shaped by precarity, his work opens onto wider reflections on exile and return. Listening becomes a way of navigating the porous terrain between an internal world and the material, social, and political structure that surrounds it.

 

Timpa's commitment to obsolete technologies; the cassette recorder, the flip-top phone, and the Super 8 camera functions as both an emotional and political gesture for the artist. This choice constitutes a direct rejection of the smoothed-out immediacy of digital sound. Instead, he embraces analogue qualities that deliberately soften and subdue audio, rounding its edges rather than sharpening its clarity, as if the sound itself were wrapped in dust or memory.

 

Timpa embraces the stubbornness of materiality and its resistance of seamless, computerised audio through sculptural handling and deliberate intention, yet remaining vulnerable to interruption and contingency. Quotidian noise, punctuated by moments of silence, test the relational and social atmospheres activated within the exhibition, seeking to cultivate conditions that heighten receptive possibilities for listening.