My Awareness post is actually inspired by my Experience post: I thought back to another time when an installation artwork left me with a complex and thought-provoking sensation after viewing it. On last year’s DC Field Trip, I remembered seeing a massive piece called The Dangerous Logic of Wooing, an incredible installation that completely filled one of the Hirshhorn’s large third-floor rooms. The piece, by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, consists of massive lycra and nylon bags suspended from the ceiling, filled with styrofoam and rice. Each form is supposed to represent a different body, some being, and they are trying to court each other, inexplicably intertwined to the point of not being able to tell which body a given bag belongs to. The lowest bags are hanging nearly all the way to the floor, and many more you have to duck your head to avoid. Walking around the room really makes you feel like you are inside the piece, that you can see its inner workings, as opposed to a painting on a wall which you are always outside of. The sense of space and the connection the viewer feels while experiencing Neto’s piece is unlike anything else I have ever seen, yet it does share some similarities with other installation art, such as the Laib Wax Room, in that it creates a multidimensional experience with the viewer, and this ability of installation art to interact is definitely something I would love to create in my own art.
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