Cevdet Erek: Americas

Cevdet Erek: Americas is an exhibition of sound-based sculptural installations at SculptureCenter in Long Island City. It brings together five site-responsive sonic works by Cevdet Erek, a Turkish artist trained as an architect and sound engineer and active as a musician, developed over the last decade for projects in Mexico City, Chicago, San Francisco, São Paulo and the US Embassy in The Hague, alongside a new commission for SculptureCenter that mixes 1980s New York metal with audio samples from the landmark 1984 exhibition Sound/Art. Erek assembles installations that reconfigure how visitors perceive space, tuning into the material qualities of architecture and the social, historical and geographical conditions they occupy. The exhibition, curated by Jovanna Venegas, weaves traces of the works' origins in the Americas into a single, newly distributed sonic environment regrounded in New York.