Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky
Lisson Gallery | 27 Bell Street | London
I’d forgotten just how loudly the noise of outside traffic used to echo in my Manhattan apartment. But when I walked into Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky’s exhibition I felt like I was back there overlooking Broadway: Lisson Gallery’s downstairs spaces were permeated by a roar of the streets such as I’ve never heard here in London, where drivers use the horn considerably more sparingly. What I’d always tried so hard to ignore had taken on aesthetic significance in the sound track to the pair’s two-channel video projection Incidents, 1996–2002, and was just as appropriate to the second (otherwise