The Power of Your Voice (2026) is a voice-activated digital installation. It is an instrument for discovering what your voice can do. Your voice carries more force than you can see. A word spoken aloud moves the air around you. The voice is one of the oldest instruments human beings have ever owned, and this work was made to make that force visible.
The rule is simple. Without sound, the work is still. When you speak, a cell appears, and then another. A chain reaction begins to unfold across the screen, growing into a field of presence. The louder your voice, the more it grows.
The cells that appear are portraits of people I have met along my own journey. They come from an earlier work of mine, Journey Mercies (2022), in which I painted these faces onto cardboard shipping boxes and stacked them in the gallery, as a way of speaking about the people who carry their lives across borders.
In this work, what you choose to say is yours. A message, a memory, a wish, a song, a word of affirmation. The work asks only that you use the instrument you carry with you everywhere.
— Ken Nwadiogbu, 2026
Ken Nwadiogbu is a Nigerian-born, London-based artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, and the moving image. Trained first as a civil engineer in Lagos and later at the Royal College of Art in London, his work asks questions about identity, migration, and visibility.