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CRYPTOMERSIVE VR

Six minutes, five metres, and a way in

A wall sized screen showing a symmetrical burst of blue and orange light, one small figure standing at its left edge

One person standing centred before the screen, the pattern radiating outward around their silhouette — Standing in it

A frame in deep red and pale green, cells opening across the whole screen — Red and green

A moving work in gold and blue, about six minutes long, with sound. Forms open out of the centre and fall back into it, sometimes a column, sometimes a burst, sometimes a symmetrical figure that holds for a moment and comes apart. It does not tell a story. It asks whether there is an order underneath the visible one, and then it behaves as if there is.

Orange filaments throwing outward from a bright centre, a figure watching from the right — Thrown outward

A tall gold column rising through the frame, a figure with one hand raised toward it — A hand to the screen

It was shown twice in 2021. First on a five by five metre LED wall at the Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture in Barcelona, in June, where it was also produced. Then in July at Raima 1986, during the solo show with Art Lover Ground, in a long brick room where the audience stood in the dark and watched it end to end.

A thin bright trail crossing a dark blue field, small geometric marks scattered along it — A trail across the dark

The screen is only one of its two bodies. The same work can be entered in virtual reality, where the camera is yours and the forms surround you instead of facing you. Both were offered as a commission at the time.