Installation and Participatory Performance
“Birth of Sensation” is an immersive installation combining photography, spatial installation and participatory performance.
Large photographic images are presented both on the walls and directly on the floor of the exhibition space. Visitors are invited to enter the installation and walk across the floor images.
By stepping on the images — faces, bodies, eyes or the belly of a pregnant figure — the relationship between viewer and image changes. The images are no longer distant objects but surfaces of physical encounter.
During the exhibition the images gradually become dirty, worn and damaged. This transformation is intentional and part of the artistic concept. The images slowly deteriorate and begin to disappear.
At the same time another layer of the work emerges.
Visitors are invited to record their feelings and sensations in the “Sensation Book”. They describe emotional reactions such as hesitation, empathy, curiosity, discomfort or reflection while walking across the images.
While the images fade and disappear, a growing archive of human sensations is created.
The work explores the fragile relationship between body, image and time. Through participation the audience becomes part of the work itself.
Images disappear — but human sensations are born.
Medium
Installation
Photography
Participatory Performance
Artist
Goldyn
Contemporary installation and performance artist
