The Turquoise will include a live, sculptural sound work alongside new paintings. Creating sound for the particular space and location of the gallery, the work will utilise disparate materials and instruments to form a precarious spacial ensemble.
Self-generating, live sound and visuals are fed through various technologies to create realtime distortions of the gallery environment.

A circuit of CD players, iphones, scanners, speakers, screens, instruments and paintings generate a live audio/visual soundtrack.

The mixed-media paintings contain digital prints of flatbed scans, collaged alongside cutouts of vinyl transfers. In these works the scanning process is a live recording, nearby objects, materials or artifacts are moved around the flatbed composition window while the scanning takes place. The resulting images are records of a process whereby the static source material is abstracted into warped digital information.

The Turquoise envelops ideas of space, geography, temporality and contemporary interconnectedness through technology and the internet.

Nature sounds on auto tune 

Bluetooth synch ..>>><<<

;;;;; speakers    speaking        spoken              broken

A live stream of the ocean

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Benjamin Barretto was born in Perth, WA in 1985. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Art) with Honours from Curtin University in 2011, and was also visiting scholar at the École Nationale Supérieur d’Art in Dijon, France. Solo exhibitions include Flowers Cars at 6817, Los Angeles,  Performance Wear at Tristian Koenig, Melbourne, Play Chandelier at 6817, Los Angeles, Physical Therapy at Furini Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo, Italy, Dance Music at Venn Gallery, Perth and Surround Sound at Highlight Gallery, San Francisco.