Wonder
Exhibition Design and fabrication
“Wonder” is a light/space/sound installation that aims to reconnect the viewer with their inner child, guiding them back into the imaginative and healing spaces of the little kid we all carry within ourselves.
As an homage to the cardboard kingdoms of our childhood, the dome is built out of cardboard. This is also a nod towards the deeply rooted excitement we feel when receiving a package in the mail, an experience that resembles the childhood feelings of a Christmas morning. We trigger the feelings of wonder and lightheartedness of our early times and bring them from the past into the present, from the inside out.
This inside-out shift is represented by the states our installation can take: One in which the individual steps into a dome (a sort of “time capsule” that plays with light-and-space ideas of self-perception) and one where the individual leaves the dome behind and lets the audience of the present moment participate in the playful shadow games that are casted all around, transforming not only its environment but all the people within reach. It’s a shift in perception. A shift in the physical and the metaphysical worlds we inhabit as human beings (or perceiving beings, as Robert Irwin would put it).
As an homage to the cardboard kingdoms of our childhood, the dome is built out of cardboard. This is also a nod towards the deeply rooted excitement we feel when receiving a package in the mail, an experience that resembles the childhood feelings of a Christmas morning. We trigger the feelings of wonder and lightheartedness of our early times and bring them from the past into the present, from the inside out.
This inside-out shift is represented by the states our installation can take: One in which the individual steps into a dome (a sort of “time capsule” that plays with light-and-space ideas of self-perception) and one where the individual leaves the dome behind and lets the audience of the present moment participate in the playful shadow games that are casted all around, transforming not only its environment but all the people within reach. It’s a shift in perception. A shift in the physical and the metaphysical worlds we inhabit as human beings (or perceiving beings, as Robert Irwin would put it).
12/15/2023