Issy Wood, live music performance
Thursday 19 Oct 2023 from 7pm to 8pm
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The concert lasts 30 minutes
Alongside three musicians, Issy Wood performs live for the second time at Lafayette Anticipations, in the context of her solo exhibition "Study For No".
Wood’s music tells us of daily discomforts, obsessive gestures and disappointments, borrowing as much from electronic and experimental pop as from introspective rock and folk tones. Her songs balance an ethereal, vaporous voice with sharp, sometimes danceable rhythm – a contrast that mirrors the upheavals and disappointments present in her lyrics. Wood sings about strategies of concealment, recipes for seduction and revenge. With a sense of humor that takes nothing away from her cynicism, she names both the fear of rejection and the necessity of solitude.
After one album and multiple EPs, Wood gave her first concert last May.
Graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in London in 2018, Issy Wood draws inspiration from a collection of objects given by her maternal grandmother, as well as auction catalogs, to produce her works.
Wood’s work has recently been presented at the ICA Miami (2022); the Hayward Gallery, London (2021); LACMA (2021); Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), London (2019); the Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2019); amongst others. In 2023, two solo presentations of Wood's work are taking place at the Ilmin Museum, Seoul and at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.
Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the ICA (Miami, 2022), the Hayward Gallery (London, 2021), LACMA (Los Angeles, 2021), and the Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin, 2019).