Given the photos I’d seen (as above) I thought there was only one way to view the recent ArtAngel project by Sarah Sze at the Waiting Rooms, Peckham Rye. Still images can only give a hint of a constantly changing visual experience so please click the link to see the Artangel official video.
The hemisphere is made of metal rods with sheets of deckled paper held in place by clips. It sits in the middle of the dilapidated room with rows of seats facing it. Multiple projectors throw light onto the paper and walls of the darkened room.
The structure is constructed in a very hand-made way with such humdrum items as coils of wire, tape, plastic water bottles and takeaway cups on the tables, showing the elements of fabrication.
It’s as if the process isn’t complete but ongoing. Metal rods sprout paper shoots and leaves. Is the natural world beginning to reclaim its rights?
In addition to projections on paper, images wash over the walls: flocks of birds, an erupting volcano…
shadows upon shadows extend the physical sculpture to fill the entire room.
You can see more of Sze’s work at Tate Modern – I featured an installation in an earlier post.