time, bruised, selves

Conceptual and artistic co-creators Battey/Ertan’s audiovisual installation explores emotional textures that lie within us. Continually transforming, ultra-detailed abstract imagery dances within a classical guitar sound world. The work is inspired by the perpetual procession of three intertwined states of being:  

1) time passing; a space filled with moving; musical memories; impermanence, 

2) crises; illness; metaphorical and literal blows and bruisings, 

3) the shattering of the ego’s shell into shards; inner selves colliding, dancing; the fragmentation of the soul and the psyche: self becoming. 

About the Artists

Bret Battey is Professor of Audiovisual Composition at De Montfort University and an internationally recognised composer of computer-assisted ‘visual music’ works. He has created two previous installations for Phoenix’s Gallery: cMatrix 12 (2009) and Three Breaths in Empty Space (2019).

Deniz Ertan is a musicologist, classical guitarist, and educator. She is the author of the book on composer, artist and thinker Dane Rudhyar and recipient of many research fellowships and awards. She has taught at the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham, De Montfort, and Leicester.