ART INSTALLATION
PERSPECTIVALS
MFA GRADUATE SHOW | VANCOUVER
JUNE 2021
Perspectivals is a participatory art installation that employs abstract geometry guided by questions of light, movement and perception paradigms.
Embedded in an immersive and spatial interior wall environment, Perspectivals is designed not to be looked at, but looked through. The installation orchestrates perceptions of light, interior space, and the surrounding environment upon viewers’ arrival. The prolonged exposure to visual and sonic elements instigates viewers’ motion and unfolds a sequential experience that is at once two-dimensional and architectural.
As participants move through the work, the textures and layers in the space sequentially shift perspective, to make it appear always anew. Perspectivals calls upon viewers’ intuitive perception of the space to experience, beyond simple comprehension, the phenomenal and poetic nature of the work.
CREDITS & THANKS
Construction Coordinator: Paula Viitanen Aldazosa.
Sound Composition: Charlie Cooper.
With contributions from Robert Kitsos, Kyla Gardiner, and Wladimiro Woyno Rodriguez.
Technical, production, resource coordination, and immense support from Stefan Smulovitz, Gillian Hanemayer, Paula Viitanen Aldazosa, Faune Ybarra, Olivia Valenza, and Aakansha Ghosh.
Presented by the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Master of Fine Arts at Simon Fraser University.
This work was presented and created on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.