(Images courtesy of Gallery MC)
Gallery MC presents Yael Erel and Avner Ben Natan’s installation curated by Dina Krunic called "Drawing Lightscapes". "Drawing Lightspaces" is a full scale installation featuring artist’s custom-made, sustainable, atmospheric lamps whose projections create spatial drawings. The installation explores the extend to which light can become a material of drawing and create performative spaces.
The exhibit is open until Feb 28th and it also includes the following interdisciplinary events which are specially designed as a response to the installation: Feb. 11th and Feb 22nd – acoustic music performance by 'King Dancer' Band and Feb 27th - Light Intersecting Motion - dance performance artistically directed and choreographed by 'ann and alexx make dances.'
"Drawing Lightscapes" is an installation that explores drawing with light to create temporal lightscapes, through constructed environments that build the depth of drawings, which is pierced by the viewer as he or she enters it. This exhibit is interplay between the environments and the body, as the curator Dina Krunic states: "This installation is an attempt to adapt to environment that we construct and allow symbiosis to emerge from the interplay of the constructed and the living, which is quite pertinent in today’s time of environmental changes. In this exhibit, the attempt is to surpass solipsism of one person, and develop a dissolved self, a self which is a part of the greater whole".
The artists’ main interest lies in pursuing the sublime qualities of light. For Yael Erel "Light is a transient, ineffable material in its nature; drawing with light maintains this fleeting quality through temporary registration of moments, rather than maintaining a fixed recording of them. As the projection stops, the screen returns to its original blank state, with no trace of the drawings that passed through its surface."
She sees their work as questioning the reality and how one perceives the self in that reality: "Plato’s cave speaks of the construct between reality and its projection. We are exploring this question of multiple perceived realities. The existence of multiple realities creates a perceptual scale shift in the experience of the viewer moving from abstraction to humor."
"Drawing Lightscapes" explores the tension between the physical and the projected through using light as a medium to draw lightscapes onto screens and lighting objects as an instrument to project, filter and reflect this light. The installation is composed of screens and custom light fixtures that are designed to work together to create several different immersive environments. It uses light as a projectional drawing device at the scale of architecture.
The screens allow for two major modes of viewing: the unobstructed view of the lightscapes as drawings, which imply an imaginary scape, as well as narrow passage zones, which encourage the viewer to peek behind the screens and enter the field of projection. As one journeys behind the screen, one enters into the depth of the drawing and in so doing modifies the drawing itself. The artists’ custom-made lamps placed behind the screens, made entirely of recycled and reused material in collaboration with ceramic Artist Sharan Elran, are the camera obscura which focus and deform the light.
Gallery MCNYC is a non-profit multicultural interdisciplinary art gallery committed to the research, production, presentation and interpretation of contemporary art. The gallery supports emerging artists and explores ideas at the junction of arts, performance, and architecture.
The exhibit is open until Feb 28th and it also includes the following interdisciplinary events which are specially designed as a response to the installation: Feb. 11th and Feb 22nd – acoustic music performance by 'King Dancer' Band and Feb 27th - Light Intersecting Motion - dance performance artistically directed and choreographed by 'ann and alexx make dances.'
"Drawing Lightscapes" is an installation that explores drawing with light to create temporal lightscapes, through constructed environments that build the depth of drawings, which is pierced by the viewer as he or she enters it. This exhibit is interplay between the environments and the body, as the curator Dina Krunic states: "This installation is an attempt to adapt to environment that we construct and allow symbiosis to emerge from the interplay of the constructed and the living, which is quite pertinent in today’s time of environmental changes. In this exhibit, the attempt is to surpass solipsism of one person, and develop a dissolved self, a self which is a part of the greater whole".
The artists’ main interest lies in pursuing the sublime qualities of light. For Yael Erel "Light is a transient, ineffable material in its nature; drawing with light maintains this fleeting quality through temporary registration of moments, rather than maintaining a fixed recording of them. As the projection stops, the screen returns to its original blank state, with no trace of the drawings that passed through its surface."
She sees their work as questioning the reality and how one perceives the self in that reality: "Plato’s cave speaks of the construct between reality and its projection. We are exploring this question of multiple perceived realities. The existence of multiple realities creates a perceptual scale shift in the experience of the viewer moving from abstraction to humor."
"Drawing Lightscapes" explores the tension between the physical and the projected through using light as a medium to draw lightscapes onto screens and lighting objects as an instrument to project, filter and reflect this light. The installation is composed of screens and custom light fixtures that are designed to work together to create several different immersive environments. It uses light as a projectional drawing device at the scale of architecture.
The screens allow for two major modes of viewing: the unobstructed view of the lightscapes as drawings, which imply an imaginary scape, as well as narrow passage zones, which encourage the viewer to peek behind the screens and enter the field of projection. As one journeys behind the screen, one enters into the depth of the drawing and in so doing modifies the drawing itself. The artists’ custom-made lamps placed behind the screens, made entirely of recycled and reused material in collaboration with ceramic Artist Sharan Elran, are the camera obscura which focus and deform the light.
Gallery MCNYC is a non-profit multicultural interdisciplinary art gallery committed to the research, production, presentation and interpretation of contemporary art. The gallery supports emerging artists and explores ideas at the junction of arts, performance, and architecture.