‘Polyphonies’ featured in Frieze Critic’s Guide for London Gallery Weekend

3 Jun 2025

Polyphonies is one of six exhibitions featured in the Frieze Critic’s Guide for London Gallery Weekend, written by Thomas McMullan.

“Taking its cue from the musical term for many sounds playing at the same time, ‘Polyphonies’ groups an international array of 11 artists who challenge assumptions about the hierarchies of voice and language. Lizi Sánchez’s vast mobile, Transcripción 15 (2025), is a tangle of transcribed notes from a conversation – a knot of speech made physical. Elsewhere, Ibrahim Ahmed’s chimera of archival textiles stitches together a history of circulated materials across the Middle East and North Africa, while Betty Muffler’s dense canvases translate the topography of Australia’s First Peoples’ Country into a visual language. Everywhere you look, there are tongues wagging in ways that test dominant notions of what language is and how it is heard.”

Polyphonies is on view at Ames Yavuz London until 26 June.