Root of Two engages the physicality of sound through a series of installations encompassing the entirety of Bemis Center’s 13,000 square foot gallery space. The works become an ensemble, connecting with each other through the viewer’s experience. As sound materializes, the works unfold and intertwine, enabling a transformative experience. In the traditional sense, they are singular works, yet they resonate with each other, rely on one another, and as a visitor walks through the galleries, the previous works sonically and physically influence what comes afterward as well as what came beforehand.
“As a composer, sound artist, and musician, Dunietz explores notions related to psychoacoustics, resonance, and the embodied experience, which changes depending on an object’s location within a given architecture and the viewer's proximity to it. Root of Two collaborates with visitors, who feel their influence as their movement through the galleries and their engagement with each work has an effect on the space and the sound. The movement of sound between the interior and exterior of each designated gallery creates links between the bodies moving through and spending time in these spaces. Following in the footsteps of those who came before her as well as expanding upon her own practice as a visual artist, 4 Dunietz’s work has grown in dimensionality. Root of Two is both a complex introduction to the sensory impression of sound and an expansion for the artist in terms of materiality and scale.” - Rachel Adams, RESONANCE AND REVELATION: MAYA DUNIETZ AND THE SUBJECTIVITY OF SOUND
Press:
DUBLAB - Frosty w/ Maya Dunietz — Celsius Drop
Glasstire - Texas Visual Art - Trembling Pianos: Maya Dunietz at the Bemis Center
Glasstire - Texas Visual Art - “Our Favorite Art Books of 2022”