

With Kamila Narysheva & Vicky Clarke, Bart Bell, Elen Huynh, Raheel Khan & Hanna Mbuya
Image & light design : Gabriel Mester
A sound program in collaboration with Mesma Records (Candice Pigeard and Gabriel Mester) curated with Manon Barbe, Vincent Enjalbert, Elena Lespes Muñoz
As part of Sandra Lahire’s exhibition “Overexposed, like an X-ray”, “Test Sites” is a sound program inspired by her work on nuclear themes. Rather than approaching the nuclear in its spectacular — and sometimes overwhelming — dimension, the program seeks to explore its diffuse presence — almost banal and invisible — within our everyday life. Yet, operating quietly on bodies and environments, the nuclear transforms and alters over time.
Carried by multiple artists, “Test Sites” unfolds as a movement that gradually becomes more introspective and visceral. An immersive experience that engages both listening and the body, echoing the way Lahire explores processes of alteration and zones of disturbance between bodies (her own, those of workers, and non-human animals), the environment, and the film medium.
Free entry.
Bar and food available on site.
Bart Bell
Bart Bell is a sound artist, composer, and sound designer based in Paris. His work explores the relationships between sound, matter, and perception through field recording, vibrational phenomena, and electroacoustic setups. Drawing on recordings made in natural or industrial environments, he develops performances in which metallic resonances, soundscapes, and electronic processing examine the links between bodies, materials, and the environment. His projects sit at the intersection of experimental music, sound art, cinema, performance, and installation.
Vicky Clarke
Vicky Clarke is a sound and electronic media artist from Manchester UK, whose work explores materiality, electrical phenomena and ritual. Working with sound sculpture, DIY electronics and human-machine systems, she creates electronic artworks that explore our relationship to technology, considering themes of human agency in autonomous systems, post-industrialisation and the techno-emotional states we experience through these interactions. Her work takes the form of composition and live AV performance, DIY machines & sculpture, digital art & research.
Elen Huynh
Elen Huynh is a Paris-based sound artist, producer and DJ. Committed to the power of human speech, she explores the spoken-word in all its forms through radio, performance and collaboration. It led her to provide vocals for artists and release cassette tapes on Choses Contraires. She also has built a composite field in the landscape of ambient and electronic music switching between ethereal textures and twisted rhythms.
Raheel Khan
Raheel Khan (b. 1992, Nottingham) is a London-based artist & composer working in installation, performance & text. His practice considers constructing environments where sound and objects converge, forming landscapes that reflect on design infrastructures and their containment of communal memory. Khan’s work is guided by a compositional and research framework that abstracts the terms machine, devotion and acoustic, into themes addressing policy, time-loops, mystics, religion and frequencies. Drawing from lived experiences and collective consciousness he treats his sound work in galleries as resonant forms, primarily working with electroacoustic and vibrational sensibilities. Sculptural installations and assemblages are often made from reclaimed material sourced from people and places, and are staged to consider and reconsider our relation to product, belongings and object histories.
Hanna Mbuya
Hanna Mbuya is a London based tuba player, composer and arranger. As well as performing as a member of Mercury-nominated 10-piece seed., Chineke! Orchestra and Nu Civilisation, other collaborations have included artists & projects such as Anna Meredith, Jon Batiste, Soweto Kinch, Jason Moran’s Harlem Hellfighters, Lafawndah’s Fifth Season and Peter Wiegold’s Third Orchestra, in addition to appearances with horn sections alongside artists including Solange, Joy Anonymous and Arlo Parks. Work in theatre includes I, Joan (2022), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023), Richard III (2024) & Hansel and Gretel (2024) at Shakespeare’s Globe. Hanna studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance and the Royal College of Music
Kamila Narysheva
Kamila Narysheva (b. Kazakhstan) is a sound and media artist, curator and DJ based in Almaty. Her installations, performances, and radio work deal with nuclear legacy, digital infrastructure, and cultural memory in Central Asia. She works with spatial sound, field recording, and rule-based systems. Recent projects include T1/2 (Half-Life) (2024–2025, with Vicky Clarke), a sound installation responding to the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, shown at Sonic Acts Biennial, Amsterdam (2026), and Prometheus Brought Fire (2024–2025), a multi-channel installation with scripted chatbot developed for the Goethe-Institut’s SOLITUDE platform. Under the moniker ‘milktea’, she DJs across many dance music genres and programs Central Asian music for radio stations. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and Smolny College.
Mesma Records is an independent electronic and experimental music label based in Paris and New York, active in music publishing and event production. Exploring under-mapped territories, Mesma develops works that challenge expectations and open up new aesthetic experiences.






