Sarah Moor visits Ryoji Ikeda's Supersymmetry at Brewer Street Car Park and finds it just a touch overwhelming.
Japanese electronic
composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda first came onto my radar last summer
thanks to Spectra,
his light and sound installation which lit up Victoria Tower Gardens in August.
Spectra bore some resemblance to the United Visual
Artists Barbican exhibition Momentum of the same year,
which used pendulums to choreograph light, sound and movement, distorting
the visitors' experience of space. Similarly Umbrellium,
part of last years Digital
Revolution exhibition at the Barbican, allowed participants
to shape, manipulate and interact with luminous forms. Preceding the
examples above, the 2013 Light Show at
the Hayward Gallery showcased the experiential and phenomenal
aspects of light like never before, remaining to date one of my
favourite exhibitions.
The power of light and
sound to create atmosphere and shape spaces is clearly not new – it dates back
to the 1960s in fact – however Ikeda brings
the immersive, sensory experience to the public in unusual ways.
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| Spectra, August 4th-11th 2014 |