KEVIN CUNANAN CHAPPELLE

DIMENSIONAL FREEDOM

2019.05

Tall white structures with vertical screens show people outdoors on either side of a gallery space.
A vertical screen set into a freestanding white structure shows a person in a dark top walking away outdoors.

Though distinct from the physical world, we can interact with virtual spaces with the same familiarity and utility as real ones. This installation encapsulates the fluidity of a virtual space, urging the viewer to weave through it – an experience that straddles the second and third dimensions. The figures onscreen are also stuck in a 2d space while receding into and escaping from their planes. The track on which they walk facilitates a perpetual movement through time and a perpetual shuffling of identity. The space between the pillars thus becomes unresolvable, destabilizing one’s orientation as in virtual space.

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