I create multimedia installations that are inspired by the inherent properties of landscapes or exhibition spaces. These often incorporate one or more natural elements such as asphalt, water or clay. My works all have certain alchemical and metaphorical properties and spin personal, historical and cultural narratives that speak to human conditions.
I combine video, sound, objects and performance to investigate how disparate and seemingly isolated objects and events parallax, unify, and merge. Through incorporation and compilation, I show how that which appears separate, meaningless, and contained is in fact in relationship and in dialogue whether it is about the urban environment, the creative cycle, or the interior landscape of the human psyche. I use a broad range of materials such as copper, oil-sticks and lead, along with a variety of methods from creating compositions with ambient sounds, to welding steel sculptures. In the creation of site-specific and temporary work, time and space also become materials that I explore and manipulate. In consonance with contemporary art practices and Umberto Eco’s idea of the open work, this approach to art making also reflects my concerns with physical and psychological cycles, junctures, renewal, and decay.
I combine video, sound, objects and performance to investigate how disparate and seemingly isolated objects and events parallax, unify, and merge. Through incorporation and compilation, I show how that which appears separate, meaningless, and contained is in fact in relationship and in dialogue whether it is about the urban environment, the creative cycle, or the interior landscape of the human psyche. I use a broad range of materials such as copper, oil-sticks and lead, along with a variety of methods from creating compositions with ambient sounds, to welding steel sculptures. In the creation of site-specific and temporary work, time and space also become materials that I explore and manipulate. In consonance with contemporary art practices and Umberto Eco’s idea of the open work, this approach to art making also reflects my concerns with physical and psychological cycles, junctures, renewal, and decay.
Laila Voss
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