Meghan Reynard: Apparition in ArtPrize 2011

Meghan Reynard (MFA Candidate 2012) will exhibit Apparition, a site-specific installation, during ArtPrize 2011 in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Apparition is a site-specific installation that utilizes light to alter the phenomenal presence of space in the 5000 sq. ft. basement at 2 Fulton Street, in downtown Grand Rapids. Participants enter into Apparition through a dark corridor in the basement of the venue. As their eyes adjust to darkness, they will slowly discern points of light suspended in space. Numbering in the tens of thousands, the luminous points may appear as masses of specks of glowing dust or tiny bioluminescent organisms. Swaying gently in the darkness, the forms of lightness offer an eerie, ethereal presence to the space. The effect of the work is illusory; the structure of the material dissolves through the light projected on to it, resulting in a 3D mass of disembodied shimmering points of light. In perceiving the work, the participant lets go of the rational, structured reality of what the form is, and slips into an entirely new perceptual state, becoming aware of the space in a way that a literal representation of the space cannot evoke. 

The project is a collaboration with Patrick Ethen (BArch 2011), and will be on view at the SiTE:LAB + U of M School of Art & Design ArtPrize venue at 2 Fulton Street in Grand Rapids, from September 21 — October 9, 2011.

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