SONOROUS

Sonorous at St Augustine’s Tower explores how sculpture, installation, and performance shape experience through space, sound, and time.

Sonorous is a group exhibition of sculpture, installation, and performance that explores how space shapes the experience of art. Rather than taking place within a neutral white-cube gallery, the exhibition is situated in the historic St Augustine’s Tower, foregrounding the role of site as a key participant in perception. The tower’s centuries-long history as a place of timekeeping, ritual, and civic function is integral to the exhibition’s conceptual framework.

The steady ticking of the clock, the bell marking each hour, and the echo of footsteps along the stone staircase merge with the tower’s natural acoustics. Within this environment, artworks exceed their physical form, extending into the auditory realm and inviting modes of listening alongside looking. What is seen becomes inseparable from what is heard. Material presence, encountered within the tower, is transformed into a structure of resonance shaped by architecture, atmosphere, and duration.

The title Sonorous refers to a sound that is rich, deep, and carrying, one that fills a space and continues to resonate after it has ceased. Within the context of the exhibition, the term extends beyond its literal acoustic meaning. It describes how the works engage with sound, space, time, and emotion, reverberating with the tower’s historical and sensory character while inviting visitors to move through the site with heightened attentiveness and embodied awareness.