Returning to the city of her alma mater, Glasgow-based sculpture and installation artist Lauren Gault presents a newly-commissioned body of work curated by May Rosenthal Sloan, the first to be shown in Dundee Contemporary Arts’ refurbished gallery spaces. Gault’s work encompasses sculpture, print, sound and moving image, created in collaboration with a number of specialists, from stonemasons and manufacturers of scientific glassware to quilting experts and suppliers of industrial machinery.

Taking inspiration from the mythological tale of Echo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, who was punished and deprived of speech (except for the ability to repeat the last words of another), Gault draws parallels with censorship of speech. This filters into her exploration of the local Tayside landscape, its layers of history and lost voices. Bursting with textures of all kinds, from geological and mineral formations, metallic objects and stone scratched with chalk, to screenprints, soft textiles, paper, and rocks found locally, each piece is deliberate in its placement within the two galleries.

None of the works have titles and there are no text descriptions on the walls, but the accompanying programme makes up for this with an in-depth explanation of the themes, materials, processes and collaborators involved. While ambitious in its explorations of intersecting ideas, these do need to be understood coherently to fully appreciate the works and what they represent. At times, the gallery space can seem too vast for this show, which ultimately lacks an intimacy to spark connection with the well-considered objects on display.

Lauren Gault: Bone Stone Voice Alone, DCA, until Sunday 18 January.