If you liked this interactive and huntingly magical installation, here's another one. It's called 'To Breathe' by Korean artist Kimsooja. She is currently living in New York and this work has been exhibited in Madrid and Venice.
"The artist invites audiences to be the live and active performers, experiencing a personal sensation and awareness that reveals the extremes of light and darkness; sound and soundlessness; the known and the unknown. (...) It is an invitation to escape the chaos and surrounding worldly noise for a moment, and thereby re-discover ourselves and question our relationship with others; to contemplate our place in the world, and face the essential boundaries of our own existence." (kimsooja.com)
The first exibithion was 'To Breathe/Respirar' in The Palacio de Christal in Madrid (2006).
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"Kimsooja uses minimal elements: a translucent diffraction film that covers the vault, the entire glass structure of the palace, a mirror that covers the floor, combined with the sound of the artists' breathing (...). She brings the audience into a transforming experience and invites them to experiment with their minds, mobilizing senses, awareness, and imagination into focus. Kimsooja composed To Breathe - A Mirror Woman specifically for the space configuration of the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid. The artist incorporates the architectural structure of the building into the mirrors on the floor, to expand and unite space." (kimsooja.com)
This is not only visual, but also auditory expirince. Listen here: audio+photo
"In the first part of the performance, her breathing is gentle, slow, and barely perceptible; but gradually it becomes deeper and faster, acquiring a dizzying rhythm, that conveys discomfort and even anguish. Several emotional states are perceptible through her breathing, which becomes one with her artistic work. In the second, one can barely notice the breathing, which becomes part of the background. The tone, modulation and rhythms have changed."
The second exhibition was 'To Breathe: Bottari' in The Korean Pavilion in Venice (2013, for Bianalle Artre). It was slightly different-she added a dark chamber.
"Treating the windows as the skin of the pavilion, the film diffracts the natural sunlight as it showers the interior space with rainbow spectrums of light. The intensity of the light in the pavilion will correspond to the daily movement of the sun rising to its setting across the Korean Pavilion. (...) The artist's amplified inhaling, exhaling and humming performance sounds fill the air, transforming the pavilion into a breathing bottari. (...) Simultaneously, the artist extends the experience of light and sound by creating an anechoic chamber. A space in complete darkness that absorbs all audio waves, leaving nothing but the sound of the viewer's own body, it creates a soundless dark void of infinite reflection of self: a black hole." (kimsooja.com)
And here's Kim talking about this project in The Korean Pavilion:
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