Alice Wang 王凝慧
Untitled 无题, 2016
100,000 hand-painted glass tiles unfixed to the floor
十万片手工上色玻璃瓷砖未固定在地面上
十万片手工上色玻璃瓷砖未固定在地面上
67 sqm
Further images
Untitled (2016) is a site-specific floor sculpture installed with the architecture of Human Resources—an arts space in Los Angeles housed in a former movie theater—in mind. The space opens onto...
Untitled (2016) is a site-specific floor sculpture installed with the architecture of Human Resources—an arts space in Los Angeles housed in a former movie theater—in mind. The space opens onto an atrium-like large cube of 2000 sqft (186 sqm); one can also walk up to the second floor where the projection booth used to be (now the 2nd floor galleries) and look down. Although the space seems quite empty—except for the tiles, one has a striking phenomenological encounter with the work and feels engulfed in the “white noise” of the piece.
Based on background radiation generated by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, Untitled (2016) is a turbulent breathing mass spawning a sonic event through the immersive visual field. Over 100,000 unfixed glass tiles, the mandala-like sculpture is a sound fossil—transmitting resonances from the primordial universe. The experience of being on the second floor galleries looking down is rather different (image #2). In particular, the eyes get lost in the patterns, and the piece becomes more of an image rather than a purely bodily encounter. I wanted to experiment with a sculptural form that provided different registers and depths of experience, while at the same time existed as a flat cosmic object.
《无题》2016是一件场域特定的地面装置，被设定放置在Human Resources的建筑里——一间坐落在洛杉矶、由戏院改造而成的艺术空间。作品在一个有类似天井结构的空间里，空间有2000平方英尺（186平方米）；观众也可到二层曾是放映厅（如今是二层展厅）的位置往下观看。尽管展厅看起来有些空旷——只有一些瓷砖，却能使观者在与作品的相遇中产生强烈的共鸣，被其“白色噪音”所吞噬。
根据138亿年前的宇宙大爆炸引发的背景辐射，可以把《无题》（2016）看作为一片流动不息的混沌，以沉浸式的视觉场域酝酿着一场关于声波的运动。这件曼荼罗坛场般的雕塑作品由超过100,000块可拆卸的玻璃瓷砖组成，它是一件声音的化石，传递着来自原生宇宙的共振。从二层展厅往下观看又会有完全不同的体验（图＃2），具体来说，双眸会迷失在图案的迷宫里，作品此时以更接近图像的形式存在，而不仅限于观者身体感受。我希望对雕塑形式进行实验，尝试提供观感的不同据点和层次，而这一切仅通过一件扁平的宇宙物件得以实现。
Based on background radiation generated by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, Untitled (2016) is a turbulent breathing mass spawning a sonic event through the immersive visual field. Over 100,000 unfixed glass tiles, the mandala-like sculpture is a sound fossil—transmitting resonances from the primordial universe. The experience of being on the second floor galleries looking down is rather different (image #2). In particular, the eyes get lost in the patterns, and the piece becomes more of an image rather than a purely bodily encounter. I wanted to experiment with a sculptural form that provided different registers and depths of experience, while at the same time existed as a flat cosmic object.
《无题》2016是一件场域特定的地面装置，被设定放置在Human Resources的建筑里——一间坐落在洛杉矶、由戏院改造而成的艺术空间。作品在一个有类似天井结构的空间里，空间有2000平方英尺（186平方米）；观众也可到二层曾是放映厅（如今是二层展厅）的位置往下观看。尽管展厅看起来有些空旷——只有一些瓷砖，却能使观者在与作品的相遇中产生强烈的共鸣，被其“白色噪音”所吞噬。
根据138亿年前的宇宙大爆炸引发的背景辐射，可以把《无题》（2016）看作为一片流动不息的混沌，以沉浸式的视觉场域酝酿着一场关于声波的运动。这件曼荼罗坛场般的雕塑作品由超过100,000块可拆卸的玻璃瓷砖组成，它是一件声音的化石，传递着来自原生宇宙的共振。从二层展厅往下观看又会有完全不同的体验（图＃2），具体来说，双眸会迷失在图案的迷宫里，作品此时以更接近图像的形式存在，而不仅限于观者身体感受。我希望对雕塑形式进行实验，尝试提供观感的不同据点和层次，而这一切仅通过一件扁平的宇宙物件得以实现。
Exhibitions
2021Echoes from a Distant Time, OCAT Xi'an, Xi'an, China 时空回响的碎片，OCAT西安馆，中国西安