The Sound is in the Telling
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
March 8, 2025 - March 29, 2025
Opening Saturday, March 8 from 4-7 PM
with a 5:30 PM performance featuring Maria Jacobson, Margaret McCarthy, Paige Naylor, and Veronica Anne Salinas
The Sound is in the Telling proposes an incomplete but expansive sonic picture of 1224 W Loyola. Sound exists in sound waves, but also in conversation with (and sometimes inextricable from) meaning, imagination, sight, and touch. Through a series of texts rendered in embroidery, videos, and sound pieces highlighting and responding to the sonic landscape of the gallery’s surroundings, Kohl pays homage to the possibility of mundane sounds to tell us when and where we are.
Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and sound artist based in Chicago. Trained as a cellist, she also incorporates synthesizers, field recordings, toy instruments and radios into her work, searching for a balance between virtuosity and curiosity. She gravitates towards sound practices which reveal and speak to their time and place: field recording, improvisation, radio broadcast and transmission. She often focuses on mundane or pedestrian sounds – sounds which often go unnoticed or under-documented, searching for the profound, unknown, or beautiful in everyday life. For more, visit liairenekohl.com.