Artist and musician, LA Timpa presents his first UK solo exhibition and a new body of work that extends his compositional practice into spatial form. Rooted in memory and lived experience, the installation considers how sound leaves its trace on physical matter, proposing sculpture as a resonant architecture through which histories are held, carried, and given agency.
For this exhibition, Timpa summons unseen presences, reframing listening as an embodied, durational encounter. Drawing from personal narratives shaped by precarious living conditions, his work opens onto wider reflections on exile and return. Here, listening becomes a way of navigating the porous terrain between internal worlds and the material, social, and political structures that surround them.
A provisional physical framework anchors the exhibition, functioning as both vessel and threshold. Within this environment, shifting layers of sound, intimate fragments, and silence form a sonic atmosphere that gestures toward the suspended rhythms of temporary occupation. Timpa’s commitment to old technologies such as cassette recorders, flip phones, and Super 8 cameras is both an emotional and political gesture. Their stubborn materiality resists the seamlessness of digital production, requiring sculptural handling and intentionality while remaining vulnerable to interruption and circumstance. Quotidian noise, punctuated with notes of silence, tests relational and social atmospheres, creating conditions that heighten receptive possibilities for listening.
Curator Milika Muritu
Born in Nigeria, Canadian artist LA Timpa lives and works between Ontario, New York and London. Solo exhibitions include; ‘I Got A New Joint: What I Should’nt Do With The Money’, curator Geraldine Tedder, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland (2025); ‘Sands’, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Gavin Brown, Rome (2023); and ‘Prayer Call/ Infa’, a performance at Pinault Collection, Paris (2019). In 2025, 27 Seiten, Zurich, published his debut novella ‘A Destiny in Jeopardy’.
Collaborations include; Principal in ‘Osanle’, a drama and dance by Klein, Southbank Centre Theatre, London; ‘’O’ Magic Power of Bleakness’ an audio/visual installation with Mark Leckey, Tate Modern, London; and with Beverly Glenn Copeland, Bush Hall, London. LA Timpa has been an international recording musician since 2016, releasing six solo albums; his more recent include IOX, with Relaxin Records (2025) and Time of Marcker with Vulgarteen (2024). As a musician Timpa has performed world-wide. Recent UK highlights include Institute of Contemporary Art, London in 2025 and PESTE, Manchester in 2024.
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