Voice and gender identity
Mevaveu studies the role that the voice plays in defining us through a sound installation that combines speech, individual song and choral singing.
Until 25 June, Centre de les Arts Lliures will be showing one of the visual arts projects that won the PostBrossa 2022-2023 open call for "its Brossian spirit of experimentation, radicalism and critical commitment". It is entitled Mevaveu and is the work of Laura Llaneli, who has been supported by the research grant from the Office of Support for Cultural Initiative of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Born in Granada in 1986, the author lives and works in Barcelona, where she has studied music, graphic design, fine arts and sound art. Her work as an artist and researcher explores the relationship between sound production and experience, language and contemporary visual arts practices, with the aim of testing the resistance of language and sound as accepted social codes.
Her projects are formalised in concerts, installations, performances and publications. In this case, Mevaveu is the result of a group research process, in relation to sound, voice, language and gender identities, which studies the role that the voice plays in defining us.
This is a sound installation made up of eight loudspeakers that reproduce, as an auditory composition, the voices of several people who have heard a discrepancy between their voice and their gender in different individual and collective situations. The proposal focuses on the use of the voice as identity, without showing any image of the witnesses and without revealing their gender identities in order to avoid the binary assignment of voices.