to yourself

'to yourself' is an installation made up of layers of found and manipulated sound and image created during a residency in the small town of Jilotepec and its neighbouring Mexico City and performed by a laptop. Amongst the noise, the shadows and the voices that the artist encountered are melodic experiments created in response to the wonderfully precarious environment. DIY instruments, software, pedals and slow moving image act as a blanket to the voice notes sent in Spanish that investigate the unanswered question of why so many female artists find themselves creating in Mexico.

velvachell is an artist and musician working with visual and sound collage. She collects the peculiar fragments of our everyday whilst recreating imagined memories. She recently presented a series of sound works and photographic transfers titled 'oddities of the waking hour' at COBERTIZO, Mexico. She has also exhibited at Street Level Photoworks and Glasgow Open House Arts Festival in 2021. She is one half of Glasgow based electronic duo WomenSaid.