For you, only you

With her 3-screen video installation For you, only you, British artist Sonia Boyce, transforms Oldenburg’s Pulverturm (former gunpowder magazine) into a sacral concert hall. She also fuses the world of early Renaissance music with the contemporary Dadaist vocals of Greek sound artist Mikhail Karikis. Karikis’ treatment of the motet Tu solus qui facis mirabilia – You Alone Work Miracles by Josquin Desprez (1450–1521) takes apart the original score to build a wholly new piece. The 15-minute installation is not only a meditation on original art and contemporary art’s appropriation of it but also evolves as a mini-battle between various musical formats. For you, only you is the latest in the Edith Russ Haus’ exhibition series, which sets the Pulverturm, one of Oldenburg’s oldest buildings, in relation both to music and video art.

Sonia Boyce has been a key figure in the Black British arts scene since the early 1980s. Photography, collage, film, printing, drawing, installation and sound rank among her broad-ranging media, as does collaboration with other artists. Her work has been shown inter alia at the Venice, Göteborg, Thessaloniki and Sharjah Biennales,and acquired by the Tate Modern, among others.

Curated by Edit Molnár & Marcel Schwierin.