Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/16/2023 - 05/19/2024
12:00 am
Location
Mattress Factory
Categories
Equal parts architectural intervention, minimalist earthwork and meditative environment, Japanese American artist Shohei Katayama’s (pictured) installation encourages reflection on the invisible forces that bind us together.
Throughout the museum’s lobby, seventeen wooden floorboards have been selectively and precisely removed. In their place, transparent panels fill the voids, allowing light from the first floor to enter the underground gallery below. As visitors traverse the lobby, their movements unknowingly influence the light shining into the darkened basement.
Simultaneously, via motion and sound sensors, visitors navigating the lower-level gallery will activate the lobby space above with subtle sounds and movements. In doing so, the spaces become intertwined, highlighting the relationship between these separate rooms, and blurring the boundaries between observer and observed.
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