
Untitled (Anechoic Chamber)
2019
Untitled (Anechoic Chamber) draws the viewer into one of the most conceptually loaded spaces in acoustic science: the anechoic chamber, an environment engineered to absorb all reflected sound and isolate a subject within its own bodily noise. Rendered through silkscreen on archival paper, the work belongs to a series in which Nikita Gale documents these spaces as both architectural fact and philosophical provocation. In such chambers, the absence of external sound forces an acute awareness of interior life, the faint percussion of a heartbeat, the soft mechanics of blinking eyes. Gale transforms this phenomenon into a visual object, offering silence not as emptiness but as a heightened, almost unsettling form of self-perception. Gale brings a rigorous interdisciplinary sensibility to this work, shaped by undergraduate training in Anthropology at Yale and graduate study in New Genres at UCLA. Her practice interrogates how sound, its presence and its suppression, structures experience and identity. The print's modest scale, 66 by 101.6 centimeters, belies the expansiveness of its subject matter, making it well suited to intimate domestic or institutional settings where its conceptual charge can fully register. Works from this series have appeared in significant exhibitions including Made in LA at the Hammer Museum and solo presentations at MoMA PS1, situating this print within a rigorously examined body of work. Offered through the CAC Cincinnati Benefit Auction, this silkscreen represents an accessible entry point into a practice that has attracted sustained institutional attention. The work arrives without a frame, giving collectors the opportunity to present it according to their own vision, though its precise dimensions and archival materials ensure lasting physical integrity.
- Medium
- Silkscreen on archival paper
- Sheet
- Spotted At
- Gallery · CAC Cincinnati Benefit Auction
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