MONICA TOLIA
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    • CV
  • PROJECTS
    • De-presencing
    • a snake in the house means the family will never want
    • Sound Perceivers
    • FU Salon
    • Liquid Dreams
    • HAVE YOU EATEN YET? >
      • LUNAR LATE: Year of the Queer Rabbit
      • NIAN is here! 年到了
      • Lunar New Year Festival 2022
      • Deptford X Festival 2021: Have you eaten yet?
      • ABOUT 你吃了吗
    • How to be together again - Residency
    • Flora / Fauna / Machina >
      • Chalton Gallery for Art Night (June 2019)
      • Gossamer Fog (January 2019)
    • Technologies of Lived Abstraction: FUTURE PRESENT >
      • FUTURE PRESENT 2
      • FUTURE PRESENT 1
    • BioSonics
    • Synchronic (In)visibility
  • SOUNDS

the sound perceivers

my tongue runs home/flees when you sit before me
                       and the only language coming 
                       out
                                      is the stench of my labour 
In all-chemical
      alchemical
      alchemy             sweat pouring where the doves forgot
                               to fly.

        DEPRESS ————>hoooooosh—haaaaooo
Alchemic dreams on the tips of
Thieving
        love and lust
        for                                             vir-al
        an image bathed
        in a vir-us
    catching the chills of adoration


*DEPRESS ————>hoooooosh—haaaaooo
              breath runs on a gasp in a
              song of painted colours
ACE-TONE mate!                         Fit as shit                BAAANG
                                        as the air closes shop for the night
                                        an egg cracks on the gasp in chime.


*denotes the sound of using an inhaler
(2026) Sound Perceivers
Beaded door curtain, 70w x 140h (cm)

Material information: 1600 stiletto nails woven with nickel wire, shot weights and wind bells
Watercolour paint on wind catch paper


​​©  2026  Monica Tolia

  • ABOUT
    • Bio & Contact
    • CV
  • PROJECTS
    • De-presencing
    • a snake in the house means the family will never want
    • Sound Perceivers
    • FU Salon
    • Liquid Dreams
    • HAVE YOU EATEN YET? >
      • LUNAR LATE: Year of the Queer Rabbit
      • NIAN is here! 年到了
      • Lunar New Year Festival 2022
      • Deptford X Festival 2021: Have you eaten yet?
      • ABOUT 你吃了吗
    • How to be together again - Residency
    • Flora / Fauna / Machina >
      • Chalton Gallery for Art Night (June 2019)
      • Gossamer Fog (January 2019)
    • Technologies of Lived Abstraction: FUTURE PRESENT >
      • FUTURE PRESENT 2
      • FUTURE PRESENT 1
    • BioSonics
    • Synchronic (In)visibility
  • SOUNDS