Installation Gallery

Field

Site Specific Collaboration with Nabil Burias and Grace Oh

2017

10' x 10' x 10' BEB Gallery space,

fabric, pvc, aluminum, nylon cord, hardware

There has always been a constant enterprise to understand what the relationship between humans and nature should entail. The internal tension of seeking to embrace the primitive self and wanting to strive to become a higher intellectual ideal has blurred the relationship between humans and the natural world. We aim to critique the existence of these artificial environments within nature that have become our new habitats.

By creating a forest-like field within a building, we physically stimulate the mental awareness of the implied boundaries of a space. The installation invites the viewers in by using the familiarity of nature-like stimuli, but also comments on the human tendency to seek for a container to hold themselves within natural environments. We aim to highlight this individual journey of finding a space, both mentally and physically, for oneself in the world.

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Fabric tubes hang from the ceiling and are secured to the ground via handmade hardware. The tubes can be detached at the base and allow visitors various sizes of personal containment to be experienced alone or with others.