Press Release

Tim White-Sobieski:
"Visor'd"
Video-light-sculpture installation

16-channel video projection, high-definition synchronized video source,
aluminum and stainless steel sculptures (powder-coated, color)
LED-fiberoptics light objects, light program synchronized with the video.
Ellipsoidal light sources, trusses, suspended acrylic panels, wall mounted LED light
Video installation duration: 12.5 min.

 

Illuminated by the projections onto 12 translucent screens, several spotlights and a massive circular light panel in the far end of the room, aluminum sculptures shaped like alien rocks form sort of a Zen garden. The installation is "larger than life" in its scale of ideas and in potential scale of exhibition adjusted to a much greater space and could take over an entire museum.

The symbolism of this show is inclined in its title after Walt Whitman's poem "Visor'd":

A MASK - a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
Concealing her face, concealing her form,
Changes and transformations every hour, every moment,
Falling upon her even when she sleeps.

Videos, included in this latest project, are variations on the earlier works from the past decade, including images from his post-nine-eleven video "Terminal". Ambient music and a flow of corresponding projections are wrapping the aluminum structures of various scale. Thinking of the theory of chaos and fractal geometry, one could analyze this group of "stones" as a non-existent system; the interaction between them is so minimal that it almost cannot be considered. But the artist empowers this composition by an additional oeuvre made of metal structural sculpture - "Sleeping Baby". Barely recognizable from the first glance, the figure is a centerpiece in a sense of philosophical weight of the entire installation. This sculpture opens up very different artistic side with an unknown earlier perspective of developing into a versatile artist capable of 3D-video-architectural installations. All components of the installation - sculpture, light-based piece and video - represent simple dynamic processes that interact exceptionally complex when set together.

Tim White-Sobieski is primarily known for his enigmatic videos and large-scale abstract and staged photography. For the last five years, the artist has shown his experiments in light sculpture. Using LED-based technology, artist created several unique works titled "Light Nebulas", “Light Currents” and “Light Diaries” (2005-2008).