

LIGHT+CHANGE Installation View 17
2022
This immersive light installation envelops the viewer in a continuously shifting chromatic environment, where programmed LED panels wrap around the gallery walls in a complete visual surround. A solitary figure stands on the reflective floor, silhouetted against the luminous screens that display ghostly human forms moving through an ethereal landscape. The work exemplifies the artist's investigation of color choreography and temporal perception, where the specific hues visible in any single moment represent merely one frame in an ongoing animated sequence. Architectural in its deployment yet phenomenological in its effect, the installation transforms the museum gallery into a space where light itself becomes the primary medium, activating perception and the passage of time. The pristine reflective floor doubles the immersive quality, collapsing the boundary between the digital environment and the physical space of viewing.
- Location
- Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Notes
Installation view of LIGHT+CHANGE, Palm Springs Art Museum, Nov 25 2022 to May 7 2023. Photo: Lance Gerber.
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