TRANSFORMATION OF ECHO
Leah Brown
June 6, 2015 - Jan 3, 2016 | Young At Art Museum
Transformation of Echo: World of Dreams is a dreamlike, sculptural installation where the exhibition is presented as both a metaphor for the unconscious mind and as an experience of an alternate reality where the viewer assumes the roles of actor and audience. The viewer enters through the artist’s hands, rendered enormous and emerging from hallway wall. The hands appear to part the wall as though it were a curtain, revealing two ways of entering the space: a tented, bedsheet-like, fabric tunnel or a mirrored, maze-like tunnel that reflects itself and the viewer in an infinity effect. Both lead into a dim and colorful pareidoliac scene where flora and fauna merge in fabric-draped forms of trees, animals and people that are reflected in numerous mirrors throughout the space and border mirrored ponds from which rise Brown’s painted plaster, human/animal, hybrid dream characters. A footbridge allows access to the far side of the installation. To exit, viewers climb up into the fabric to plunge back into the bright lights of the waking world via a twisting slide, elucidating the effect of waking upon the feeling of falling.
Leah Brown
June 6, 2015 - Jan 3, 2016 | Young At Art Museum
Transformation of Echo: World of Dreams is a dreamlike, sculptural installation where the exhibition is presented as both a metaphor for the unconscious mind and as an experience of an alternate reality where the viewer assumes the roles of actor and audience. The viewer enters through the artist’s hands, rendered enormous and emerging from hallway wall. The hands appear to part the wall as though it were a curtain, revealing two ways of entering the space: a tented, bedsheet-like, fabric tunnel or a mirrored, maze-like tunnel that reflects itself and the viewer in an infinity effect. Both lead into a dim and colorful pareidoliac scene where flora and fauna merge in fabric-draped forms of trees, animals and people that are reflected in numerous mirrors throughout the space and border mirrored ponds from which rise Brown’s painted plaster, human/animal, hybrid dream characters. A footbridge allows access to the far side of the installation. To exit, viewers climb up into the fabric to plunge back into the bright lights of the waking world via a twisting slide, elucidating the effect of waking upon the feeling of falling.