(Photo: Jennifer Pyron portrait by Martize Brooks)

Vocal and visual artist Jennifer Pyron is set to open her first solo exhibition this week in Sofia, Bulgaria.

“Images of Soul: Evolving in Light,” is an interactive and immersive audiovisual work that draws on live performance, experimental film, and photography to explore the evolution of consciousness through improvisation, debuts at Arosita Contemporary Art Gallery on Tuesday, June 2 at 6:30 p.m. and remains on view through June 16. Pyron, who is also managing editor and writer for OperaWire, will perform live vocal works as part of the exhibition.

“I am aware of the line between worlds and I am a bridge of light,” Pyron stated regarding the project. “This installation offers fluid perspectives that see the beauty in all things – a chance for one to connect with the playfulness of life through light, sound and consciousness.”

The work draws a direct line to the “soul iconography” of French physiologist Hippolyte Baraduc, whose 1913 study “The Human Soul: Its Movements, Its Lights, and the Iconography of the Fluidic Invisible” sought to document the invisible energetic life of the soul through photographic means. “Light Channel” pursues a related inquiry through contemporary materials: natural photography capturing reflected light on Pyron’s studio wall while she improvises with her voice, and glitch photography that processes vocal sound through an HDMI cable, monitor screen, iPhone, and laptop to produce images of raw, unresolved light. A series of 35mm film photographs, “Central Park / Energy Synthesis,” brings images of New York City’s Central Park into the installation as moments of pure consciousness captured on film.

The sound environment is anchored by “Indeterminate Perspective” (2025), a spatial sound collage created in collaboration with sound designer Paul Geluso. Pyron’s instrumentation includes her voice, a Korg MS 2000 digital analog synthesizer, and an RC 300 loop station.