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Your changing atmosphere, 2024 - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles – 2024 - Photo: Zak Kelley
Your changing atmosphere, 2024
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles – 2024
Photo: Zak Kelley
Your changing atmosphere, 2024 - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles – 2024 - Photo: Zak Kelley
Your changing atmosphere, 2024
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles – 2024
Photo: Zak Kelley
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This polychromatic geometric sculpture hangs in the gallery at eye level. As viewers move around the work, they glimpse variegated shapes within the dense interior that are constantly changing in colour. This effect stems from combining polarising filters with a plastic that appears to be a range of colours depending on its angle in relation to the filters. A different material is used for each layer, and a light at the centre illuminates the work from within.

The outer shell of the sculpture is a rhombic triacontahedron, a polyhedron composed of thirty congruent diamond-shaped faces. Embedded within it is a second, smaller yet identical form. The two layers are connected by a latticework tiling system of rhombohedra that follows a pattern derived from research at Studio Olafur Eliasson into quasicrystals. The faces of the outermost layer are made from polarising filters, while the innermost polyhedron is constructed from a cloudy diffuser glass laminated with a polarising layer. The rhombohedra are made from a special plastic that reacts to the polarising filters. The combination of materials and the various angles of the faces conjure a complex interplay of light, colour, and shapes.

Artwork details

Title

Your changing atmosphere

Year

2024

Materials

Polarisation filters, transparent plexiglas, stainless steel, LED lights, ballast, dimmer