🎨December Museum Visit 🎨

Hi angels! ✨ I hope this post finds everyone well 💖 I recently backed up some photos from my old phone and came across some fun ones from a museum date with friends! I've posted a few on my Instagram and Twitter but wanted to share more and now that I have this space I'll do just that! 

The most exciting collection in the museum we went to is Leandro Erlich's Liminal solo exhibition featuring sixteen interactive installations. I enjoy interactive art the most since it allows spectators to participate. The encounter's outcome will vary depending on who is there, and your willingness to partake - it's beyond the psychological experience one would usually come across when examining a painting or walking around a sculpture. 

Unfortunately, I don't have pictures from all of the installations since I was having too much fun to remember to whip my phone for all of them but if you're interested in learning more about the artist and seeing his list of works, you can do so here on his official website.

Swimming Pool is the most popular of the sixteen installation pieces and it isn't difficult to understand why. The installation is a life-sized pool divided into two spaces: one above the surface and one underneath it. Between the two is a transparent pane of contained water which gives an illusion of seeing people "underwater." To get "below the surface" there's a staircase next to the pool which leads to a little blue room. Its color is intentional as its what creates the reflections of the water above. We were lucky to have most of the museum to ourselves and could afford to hog the space and even lie down and watch the water dance above us. Erlich stated that the installation is meant to inspire the optimistic notion that we're the architects of our own reality and should never accept it at face value. 

 

I really liked Swimming Pool and might visit the museum again alone just to appreciate it more before I leave town. I've had dreams where the reality of those worlds function the way this sculpture does and I was just over the moon to see something like it while awake. 

The Classroom. A sheet of reflective glass creates the illusion where visitors find a ghostly reflection of themselves sitting in the abandoned classroom trapped inside it. 

Erlich's Lost Garden features a small garden between mirrors that constructs a reflection paradox where the participant will not appear in the mirror in front of the window they peek into but instead will see themselves from unexpected angles. This was intended to allow audiences to experiment with their perceptions of themselves.

Thanks again to everyone for taking the time to visit my blog! Hope everyone enjoyed my silly ramblings and if I'm lucky I might have introduced y'all to an interesting new artist 💗