PALOMA PROUDFOOT – A FESTIVAL OF UGLY SOUNDS
2025-11-10The exhibition investigates the gendered histories and cultural associations of vocal utterances, examining how sound shapes identity, emotion, and communication.
Proudfoot’s works consider how, throughout the centuries, women’s sounds have been regarded as obscene and thus have sought to be controlled, curtailed and muted. As Anne Carson writes, ‘putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.’
Opposite – Gossip, 2025
Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025
The Approach
1st Floor, 47 Approach Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9LY
London
