Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art.
“Whether inside the white cube or out in the Nevada desert, whether architectural or landscape-oriented, site-specific art initially took the “site” as an actual location, a tangible reality, its identity composed of a unique combination of constitutive physical elements: length, depth, height, texture and shape of walls and rooms; scale and proportion of plazas, buildings, or parks; existing conditions of lighting, ventilation, traffic patterns; distinctive topographical features.”
-Miwon Kwon
Similar to that of well-known land artist Robert Smithson, whose use of mirrors reflected elements in their natural settings seen in such works as Yucatan Mirror Displacements and Mirror Displacements (Brambles) England, the ideas are being explored through the present work titled Untitled I. This work explores the industrial yet earthen material of coal and its hazardous effects on the environment through its abstracted placement within the earth’s surroundings. The use of mirrors separately placed at equal distances brings the elements of the earth’s atmosphere- earth, wind, air and water together at one specific location.
“Whether inside the white cube or out in the Nevada desert, whether architectural or landscape-oriented, site-specific art initially took the “site” as an actual location, a tangible reality, its identity composed of a unique combination of constitutive physical elements: length, depth, height, texture and shape of walls and rooms; scale and proportion of plazas, buildings, or parks; existing conditions of lighting, ventilation, traffic patterns; distinctive topographical features.”
-Miwon Kwon
Similar to that of well-known land artist Robert Smithson, whose use of mirrors reflected elements in their natural settings seen in such works as Yucatan Mirror Displacements and Mirror Displacements (Brambles) England, the ideas are being explored through the present work titled Untitled I. This work explores the industrial yet earthen material of coal and its hazardous effects on the environment through its abstracted placement within the earth’s surroundings. The use of mirrors separately placed at equal distances brings the elements of the earth’s atmosphere- earth, wind, air and water together at one specific location.