For Turiya

Miller’s practice is rooted in film making and writing out of which she expands it into the array of laser light installation and sculptural work. The idea of transmutation is central to Miller’s work, which especially becomes emblematic by the means of laser light. The laser itself, as an analogue medium, is constituted by a transformation of audio waves into light waves, enabling a synesthetic experience: one hears light, sees sound. An immersive sensory sensation, it can hardly just be passively absorbed, thus Miller draws our attention on how we habitually metabolize imagery. 

In this exhibition Nicole Miller presents her newest commission, the eponymously titled single channel laser light installation For Turiya. Dedicated to virtuous jazz musician and sonic healer, Alice Coltrane, known among her family and spiritual community as Turiyasangitananda or Turiya for short, this work poses as a continuation of Miller’s interest in the notion of Black excellence and stardom, while also fundamentally raising the questions of what it means to create and exist as an artist.