SSF 2023 Atmospheric Memory: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Tour

During this guided tour designed for high-school aged children and their families, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will lead audiences through the rooms of Atmospheric Memory and engage with their responses to the work.

Exploring the lasting impact of the words we speak and ways to visualise words and sounds, children and adults alike can experiment with unique art experiences, including a fountain that writes voices in mid-air and a 3,000 channel sound installation.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a media artist working with ideas from architecture and performance. He was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with a monographic exhibition in 2007. He has also shown at Biennials such as Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Mercosul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney. Lozano-Hemmer was the subject of 75 solo exhibitions worldwide, including, recently a major show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the inaugural show at the AmorePacific Museum in Seoul, and a mid-career retrospective co-produced by the MAC in Montréal and SFMOMA. In 2019, his interactive installation Border Tuner connected people across the US-Mexico border using bridges of light controlled by the voices of participants.