HEARD

Rene Matić's HEARD is on show at V&A East Museum until Sunday 18 October, as part of the museum's New Work: Making East London season. It's a new commission for the museum, and it starts with a couple of questions: 'Can an image be heard? How do the records we carry with us — songs, movements, basslines — define us?'

The work itself is a sculpture: eight photographic lightboxes stacked into the shape of a reggae sound system. It's a direct nod to a Jamaican cultural legacy brought to Britain by the Windrush generation, and the photographs coalesce like sounds echoing from a speaker. The images were taken across east London, the wider city, Plymouth and Peterborough, tracing Black British music as the connective tissue through which communities gather, remember and move together. Some come from Notting Hill Carnival and east London nightlife, others from the artist's own friends and family. Matić, a Turner Prize nominee who lives in east London, says the pictures 'look for music in the gestures of people'.

You'll find it on Level 2, just outside the exhibition The Music is Black, so it works well as a companion piece. The museum is at 107 Carpenters Rd, London, E20 2AR, and entry is free. It's open 10.00 to 17.30, Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October, so you've got the whole weekend to catch it before it closes on Sunday.