‘Perceived Space’
Perceived Space
The use of collage as both a medium and a method to define three-dimensional space is an attempt to challenge the conventional perception of physical space.
Within the context of the project space at GlogauAIR, an opportunity to enter the physical world of the collage is presented to the viewers. Gallery goers are free to move throughout the space in any order or direction, however, there are three moments in which the user experiences space through the lens of the artist:
One:
The cylinder is an unbroken space within an airspace that already exists. The cylinder slips through door frames encompassing pieces of two separate gallery spaces and an external hallway. Though typically separate spaces, the cylinder links them together, creating one continuous, private, yet well connected, open space.
Two:
The bench is a continuous volume, intersecting walls and dividing rooms, yet simultaneously suggesting not smaller bisected spaces, but one larger, continuous space. The volume then continues up into the ceiling, as a playful suggestion to infinity.
Three:
With a clear beginning and end, the line wanders in and out of the building, across streets, and back. The line creates a space outside of the gallery, both as a quiet invitation to those walking by, and a suggestion of scale. The line leaves the gallery, expressing a probability of a space beyond the gallery’s walls.
These three elements have been specifically laid out within the gallery as a representation of the artist’s recent work in collage. Each element has its own individual identity that responds to its neighboring element and the existing walls which encompass the collage. The collage is also meant to call attention to the empty space, revealing a relationship between not only the three elements of collage, but the spaces and negative space in which those relationships create.
Opening Times
Friday, 18. June 2021, 18–22h
Saturday, 19. June 2021, 15–20h
Artists
Kevin Driscoll
