This sound piece is part of the work that the artist exhibited at Swiss Institute New York.
Longhi used a spy camera’s microphone to record atmospheric sounds of music as she strolled through department stores in Zürich, where she lives, and New York. She additionally positioned multiple speakers playing various pop songs throughout her studio and apartment, and recorded the panoply of shifting soundtracks as she walked past them with the same spy device. A mix of the resulting audio plays in the exhibition on directional speakers located within wall-mounted boxes that are covered in florist’s kraft paper, as well as reproductions of the same paper, and printed silkscreen mesh she previously used for the paintings. Passing by, it almost sounds like shopping.

A digital and analog zine is published along this audio work
credits
released April 12, 2024

Published for the exhibition

Lorenza Longhi: World of Yum Yum at Swiss Institute, New York from January 25-April 14, 2024, curated by Alison Coplan

© 2024 Swiss Institute, New York; Czarnagora, Zürich


All work © the artist
Courtesy of the artist, Fanta-MLN, Milan and Weiss Falk, Zürich and Basel