Artist Sarah Oppenheimer actuates new spaces via projective dynamic processes. In her practice space becomes indeed a transformative experiment inspired by architectural principles and interventions.
The artist creates interesting points of views, shapes and forms that engage the spectator by reconfiguring determined environments, from buildings to galleries. Architecture is therefore sculpted in a wall or a floor and new relations are established between the indoor and outdoor experiences of visitors.
Oppenheimer's radical intervetions include for example slashing and cutting a wall, configuring and reconfiguring it, exposing the structure of a space's visibility and invisibility.
In her project "610-3356" (2008), the artist cut a hole into the fourth floor of the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh and created an elaborate chute that slashed the museum, emerging out of the window of the floor below.
In Oppenheimer's works the lack of space creates patterns, framed views that connect different planes together or holes and absences that challenge the spectators, inviting them to go beyond the space and apply Lucio Fontana or Paolo Scheggi's theories on a large scale rather than on a limited canvas.
Holes, cut out spaces, boundaries, distortions of precise contours and lines can be considered as inspiring themes also when it comes to fashion. The presence or absence of holes or sharp cuts in a garment can indeed produce interesting motifs, layered effects or alterations in a pattern that can generate innovation.
Interested in developing further this inspiration? Check out "Definition Series: Holes (Blindspots and Other Anomalies)", a free event that will take place on 8th December (at 7 pm) at New York-based nonprofit organisation Storefront for Architecture (97 Kenmare Street). The event will feature artist Sarah Oppenheimer and architect and Senior Editor at Artforum Julian Rose among the others. The event will also be celebrating a new publication by Mills College Art Museum exploring the potential of distortion in the visual and social fields.
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