Nicole L'Huillier

Ambiguity, belonging, and codes of communication are fundamental to the work of Nicole L’Huillier.

Cuchicheos [Spanish for whispering/murmuring] are all delicate, rubbery, oscillating sound apparatuses. Each membrane is an output, a voice, a translation that constantly generates cuchicheos that are not meant to be heard from a distance. To listen to and absorb the sounds, one must approach them and gently touch the membranes with the ears, hands or face, inviting the audience into the intimate and tactile state of listening and paying attention to vibrational phenomena.

A membrane is a porous structure that is elastic in its essence and like the skin, a threshold that mediates and permeates continuity. It has the condition of being inner and outer at the same time, and is conceptually and physically a body of dualisms and multiplicities.