WHISPERING COLOURS
Animating materiality with sound while stimulating colours perception and awareness of the space and releasing the everyday material from its utilitarian and functional use.
Visitor interacting with the sound-colours of Whispering Colours installation (detail)
Whispering Colours overview of the suspended artwork (detail)
Video mix recording the visitors’ testimonials while interacting with Whispering Colours installation (extract)
Site-specific acoustic installation
Whispering Colours (2015) is a work that animates materiality with sound, while stimulating colour perception and awareness of space.
Multi-coloured and fluorescent ropes draw vibrant patterns on floating cylinders that are suspended from the ceiling, releasing the everyday material from its utilitarian and functional use.
The multi-coloured artwork is brought alive by filling the PVC pipes with whispering voices that resonate inside the cylindrical spaces, so they are talking in the same way colours talk to each other.
The viewer is invited to walk around the acoustic sculpture embracing the dynamic of colours, sound and space as they enter this three-dimensional canvas.
As part of the Whispering Colours experience, a series of fast-looping videos in which orange and blue balls are moving a tempo with the whispering sound that is surrounding the space.
Artwork details
| Artwork | Whispering Colours (2015) |
| Material | Plastic PVC pipes, glue, polyethylene and reflective fluoro ropes, iPod, speakers, led lights, digital tablets |
| Dimensions | Variable |
| Duration videos | 02:31 and 01:56 mins (loop) |
| Exhibitions |
Marta Ferracin: Whispering Colours
Factory49, Marrickville, NSW, AU 28 October - 7 November Playing with Perspectives New Views from Emerging Artists (2016) Deloitte Australia, Sydney, NSW, AU 26 april – 29 july |
| Links | Catalogue |
Credits
Voice recording
Chris Verheyden
Photos
Corey Rankin; courtesy of the visitors
Curator Deloitte Art Exhibition
Emilya Colliver Artpharmacy Consultancy
Provision of the Exhibition Spaces
Factory49 gallery; Deloitte Australia
© Marta Ferracin 2025 Website by Natalia
Installation assistant Christopher Verheyden