Sound Installation
As part of the Swap Project at The Hepworth, Victoria Lucas creates a sound installation in response to Barbara Hepworth's 'Mother and child' (1934).
In 'The Search', the artist and her two siblings strive to replicate the sound of their mothers laugh; a sound that they have not heard for seven years since her death. Through their own inherited voices, they repeatedly search for the correct sequence of sounds.
A laugh is something that is unique to everyone, and remembering through reenactment preserves the memory of not only the sound, but also the person to whom it belonged. The transient nature of the voice as it fills the air and then dissipates allows one to consider the ephemeral nature of existence against the passage of time.