_ Sonia Leber and David Chesworth are a Melbourne-based collaborative duo that work across sound, video and installation art, using the human voice as their principal medium. Their sound-based installations transform public sites into zones of exploration and discovery, with visitors left to navigate their way though the physical space and the dense compositions of sonic elements. These are immersive works that envelop the viewer and blur the distinctions between observing and being observed. At times confronting and disorientating, Leber and Chesworth’s work uncovers a portal to the phantasmagorical, hidden amongst the everyday.

Sonia Leber and David Chesworth’s recent solo exhibitions include Space-Shifter (Detached, Hobart, 2012), Space-Shifter (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2011), Richter/Meinhof-Opera (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2010) and Space-Shifter (Conical, Melbourne 2009). Recent group exhibitions include Spaced: Art of of Place (Fremantle Arts Centre, 2012), Stealing the Senses (Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 2011) and In camera and in public (Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2011). Their large sound and structure project, Almost Always Everywhere Apparent, was a major solo exhibition at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne in 2007.

They are regularly commissioned for their site-specific works such as We, The Masters (2011) at City Square, Melbourne and Proximities (2006) a Melbourne Commonwealth Games public art commission as well as projects in New Zealand, Wales and Slovenia. Leber and Chesworth were finalists in the 2011 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture.

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