Art Wall: Caroline Kent

April 27–October 30, 2022

BAMPFA commissioned Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent to present The Sounds Among Us, a large-scale, self-reflective yet otherworldly meditation on the museum as a site of intimate performance and public engagement.

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Caroline Kent: The Sounds Among Us
Caroline Kent, during installation
Detail of The Sounds Among Us
Detail of The Sounds Among Us
The Sounds Among Us in BAMPFA's Crane Forum

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Art Wall: Caroline Kent

April 27–October 30, 2022

In her newly commissioned Art Wall project, Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent presents The Sounds Among Us which activates her unique abstract language as “musical notation for everyday sounds.” Moving fluidly between darker painted layers signifying “undertones” and colorful, foregrounded shapes representing “overtones”, the large-scale work embraces BAMPFA’s Crane Forum as a soundscape resonant with muted conversations, footsteps, and shuffling bodies, while punctuated by laughter, clapping, and speech. Kent’s dynamic visual composition provides a self-reflective yet otherworldly meditation on the museum as a site of intimate performance and public engagement. Known equally for her works on paper and for her choreographed live installations, Kent asks that her viewers become listening, sentient bodies in a multi-dimensional, and multi-sensory space, amidst her orchestration of new perceptual forms. The artist studied at...

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Art Wall: Caroline Kent is organized by BAMPFA staff and curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, executive director, with the assistance of Christina Yang, chief curator.

The Art Wall is made possible by major funding from Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau.