Video: Looking into infinity. Light installation by Doug Wheeler
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Light is a very powerful tool. With its help, you can influence a person, deprive him of sleep, rest. With its help, you can make a person prettier or uglier. Light makes the world clearer and safer. And the artist Doug Wheeler helps people see with the help of light … Infinity.
Artists who paint with light create paintings with it. It doesn't matter if they are stationary or temporary. Examples of this include Rashad Alakbarov's light and shadow drawings, the glowing female silhouettes in Christopher Bucklow's photographs, or the glowing Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi. But the American Doug Wheeler uses light to do … nothing.
His work, SA MI 75 DZ NY 12, can be compared to a clear blue sky on a clear day or a night sky on a cloudless night. That is, with its help, you can look into infinity. Only this infinity is not natural, due to the immense dimensions of the Universe, but artificial, created by Doug Wheeler with the help of light instruments.
The installation "SA MI 75 DZ NY 12" consists of two rooms separated by transparent glass: a larger one, where most of the spectators are located, and a smaller one, where only a couple of people can enter. Both rooms are created in the same tone of the walls, which can change depending on the lighting (but also always in sync).
In the smaller room, all corners are smoothed out. Therefore, looking at her, the viewer has the impression that he is looking into infinity. And the person who is there hangs in this infinity. In any case, this is how it looks from the outside. To enhance the effect, the floors in these two rooms are at different levels.
As conceived by Doug Wheeler, thanks to the installation "SA MI 75 DZ NY 12", a person will henceforth perceive space, light and infinity in a different way.
SA MI 75 DZ NY 12 is on display at the Soho Gallery in New York.
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