Anna Barham is currently showing recent works in delirious mantra. The exhibition explores how digital technologies privilege standardised language while marginalising diverse voices, accents, and bodily textures of speech. Anna Barham’s work resists this smoothing by foregrounding error, untranslatability, and the materiality of language through visual, performative, and sound-based practices. Across her exhibition, she uses fragmentation, rearrangement, and speech-recognition “mishearings” to show how disruptions in language can generate new meanings and challenge systems of authority and standardisation.

The exhibition includes the work ZYX (2026) which is based on her DPhil work at the Ruskin. The sound work considers "the errors produced by automatic speech recognition as hallucinations, and how they might compare to human hallucinations. What initially seems like a misheard text is in reality a new way of thinking and writing - in radical oppostion to automisation, standardisation and authority."

ZYX (2026) will also be shown at Matt’s Gallery in London in May/June 2026.

The exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein continues until 14 June, 2026.