Cultural Capital brought Robyn Backen’s Voices Within to life. Curated, developed and managed for Bridgehill, the seven metre high, seventeen metre long beckoning light marks Voices Within as a distinctive new cultural landmark for Green Square. Supporting the energy of major regeneration at a civic scale, Voices Within carves out a space for the individual – a moment of encounter that invites curiosity and reflection. 

Illuminating Green Square’s UNO Apartment building, Backen’s LED scrolling message includes found and original text, filmic references, i Ching and hexagram; and at points, collapses into abstraction. Activating 1335 LEDs, the moving images and text play on a dynamic low-res “screen” integrated with the building façade that literally re-writes the city at night.

Backen describes the messages as “a silent whisper passing through time”, continuing her ongoing exploration into resonant structures and the acoustics of ancient whispering architecture.