Join Tate curator of Contemporary British Art and Lead curator of Turner Prize Linsey Young as they discuss with artist Rene Matić the inspiration behind their immersive display.

‘soul time’ takes its name from the 1966 Northern Soul song by Shirley Ellis – a title that has since been used as an idiom to describe practices of self-preservation and prayer.

The space Matić has created for House of Voltaire is an attempt at imaging and sounding out the journey of not only imagining but knowing the self outside of oppressive situations. Using the abundant milieu of the 1960s soul scene, Matić uses the poetics and aesthetics of soul as tools of salvation and redemption; to deliver one from dystopia to utopia through subcultural practice. Matić uses subculture as a kind of ‘attainable afro-futurism’ where one can create spaces of breakage and glitch in real time – in soul time.

Matic’s new series of specially editioned works for sale include leather bowling bags, embroidered patches and key chains and limited edition prints with hand torn edges. All works are available to purchase in–store and online, in support of Studio Voltaire’s artistic and public programmes.