Anne Le Troter

Capivacci's zither

Sound installation composed of :

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Jimi Hendrix lookalike, bite sculpture, 2025
Dracula and Laurie Anderson, bite sculpture, 2025
Guignol, bite sculpture, 2025
Carmilla, bite sculpture, 2025
Capivacci, sound sculpture, 2025

Parlant-es : Eva Barto, Martin Bakero, Vir Andres Hera, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Anne Le Troter

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Project assistant: Elias Gama
Steel sculpture production: Margot Pietri
Mixing: Noé Mignard
Mixing on work: Guillaume Couturier

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Courtesy of Anne Le Troter and galerie frank elbaz

In this sound installation featuring four biting sculptures, Anne Le Troter has brought together "professional biters" to create a "school of biting". Dracula, Carmilla, Laurie Anderson, Guignol and Jimi Hendrix tell us how to bite, why we bite and who we bite. We bite the hand so that it lets go, the foot so that it turns back, the tongue so that it withdraws. Each character attempts a poetic pedagogy, encapsulated in plant sculptures that we are invited to bite, guided by the mediators. Anne Le Troter draws on the medical protocol of Hieronymus Capivacci, who in the 16th century suggested that patients bite into the strings of a zither to assess their deafness, using bone conduction.

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Anne Le Troter

Born in 1985
Based in Paris

Anne Le Troter explores the ways in which speech emerges within specific groups. She works in cycles, combining exhibitions and written pieces. She often collaborates with groups of people, such as ASMR(autonomous sensory meridian response) artists who practice a vocal relaxation technique, or dental technicians, to create immersive sound works. She has explored themes such as the alienation of speech with installations around the figure of the telephone interviewer. More recently, she has explored notions of biography, fiction and utopia.