Clara Oppel's works are situated at the interfaces between sound space installation and
sculpture. She combines sound into a symbiosis with image and space so as to create spatial
sculptures which can be walked around in. By means of audio recordings she penetrates deep
into the materiality of perception. It's like zooming in she says but with the microphone in
order to make a microorganism audible. Particles of original sound are extracted and modified
to the point of becoming unrecognizable. She works in particular with the construction of
visual elements as well as with the movements and transformations of acoustic signals in
space. The artist is concerned with the interactions between acoustic and visual perception.
Both these factors determine the space in equal measure and the give-and-take between them
creates a field of dynamic tension. Immaterial sound acquires a physical appearance and
together with the sculptural elements gives rise to synaesthetic situations. This formative
interplay engenders the spatial sculptures. Each work evinces intermodal qualities situations
which are at the same time both image and sound. The acoustic and sculptural inner life of the
objects and installations takes us on journeys in multimedial space where all situations have
a reciprocal impact on each other. It is only through the amalgamation of these auditory
visual and spatial components of equal value that the interrelated whole achieves the goal
sought by the artist-the sound sculpture.
