Place of birth: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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With an interest in the interaction between abstract sound and human voice Constanza Castagnet (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1987) questions the malleability of language and the limits of sense. Castagnet mainly uses the voice as an instrument of resistance over its function to transmit and communicate meaning. Standing within the sound installation Liquid Lips, you hear a singing voice that detunes the semantic sense. Hearing voices deconstruct words sparks a mix of complex and eerie textures, gently disorienting the listener’s ears. Words are stripped from their layers of meaning and are shadowed by echoes and stutters in digital cut-ups, as a way to engage with language in a way that is not modulated by expectation.